AD 1775

London
672

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the
King holden for the City of London at the Guild hall within the
said City by adjournment on Friday the twentieth day of January
in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
third King of Great Britain Etc Before John Wilkes< no role > Esquire Mayor
of the City of London Brase Crosby< no role > Esquire Frederick Bull< no role > Esquire
Aldermen of the said City John Glynn< no role > Serjeant at Law Recorder of
the said City Benjamin Hopkins< no role > Esquire and other of the Aldermen
of the said City and others their Fellows 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 within the said City

Whereas by vritue of an Order or Pass Warrant under the Hands and
Seals of two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the City
of London (one being of the Quorum) dated the fifteenth day of
August last Elizabeth Booker< no role > Singlewoman was removed from the
Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great in the City of London to the
Parish of Saint Ann and Agnes within Aldersgate by the description
of Saint Ann and Saint Agnes in the City of London as the Place of
her last legal settlement Now upon hearing the Petition and
Appeal of the Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said
Parish of Saint Ann and Agnes within Aldersgate (which stands
duly adjourned unto this day) against the Warrant and Judgment of
the said two Justices) in the presence and hearing of the Church
Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint
Bartholomew the Great and having heard what could be alledged
on either side by the said Parties their Council and Witnesses in and
concerning the Promisses It is thereupon Ordered that the warrant
and Judgment of the said live Justices be quashed vacated and set
a side and that the said Appeal be allowed and the same is
hereby allowed accordingly And it is hereby further Ordered that
the said Elizabeth Booker be forth with sent back and
delivered unto the Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor
of the said Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great to be by
them maintained and provided for until they can free
themselves from the charge thereof by due course of Law And
it is further Ordered that the Church Wardens and Overseers of
the poor of the said Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great do
forthwith pay or cause to be paid unto the Church Wardens and