London.
At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our lord the King
holden for the City of London
at the Guildhall
within the Same City on Monday
the twenty fourth day of October
, in the thirty, first year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Second King of great Britain Etc Before
Marshe
Dickinson< no role >
Esqr
Mayor
of the City of London
Sir
Crisp Gascoyne< no role >
Knight
one of
the Aldermen
of the said City Sir
William Moreton< no role >
Knight
Recorder
, of the said
City
William Alexander< no role >
Esqr
one other of the Aldermen
of the said City and
others their fellow Justices of our Said lord the King assigned to keep the
peace of our said lord the King within the said City and also to hear and
determine divers felonies trespasses and other misdeeds committed winthin
the said City.
Whereas by an Order or pass Warrant bearing Date under the
Hands and Seals of two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the
City of London
and the Libertys thereof (one being of the Quorum) the
twenty second Day of June last Ann Hawkins< no role >
Wife
of Thomas
Hawkins< no role >
a Sailor
in his Majesty's Service (as 'tis said) and their two
Children Ann< no role >
aged four Years and John< no role >
aged two Years were sent and
delivered by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
of Saint Alphage
London
to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the
Poor of the Parish of Romford
in the County of Essex
as the Place of their
last legal Settlement And now upon having the Petition and Appeal
of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of
Romford against the said Warrant and the Judgment of the said two
Justices and having heard what could be alledged on either Side by
the respective Churchwardens and Overseers their Council and Winesses
in and concerning the Premes It is thereupon ordered that the
said Warrant and Judgment of the said Justices be confirmed and that
the Appeal aforesaid be dismissed and that the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Romford
do Provide
forthe said Woman and her said Children until they can
free themselves from the Charge thereof by due Course of Law.
By the Court
Hodges.