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<p n="323"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> London,<lb></lb>
to wit}</note>
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To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the<lb></lb>
Poor of the Parish of Saint Katherine<lb></lb>
Creechurch in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo231">City of London</rs>
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, and the<lb></lb>
Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor<lb></lb>
of the Parish of Saint Dunstan in<lb></lb>
the East in the said City<lb></lb>
and to every of them.</p>
<p n="324"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n324-1">John Burnell</rs>
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Mayor<lb></lb>
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto us, two<lb></lb>
of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15100_occ101">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the City of<lb></lb>
London and Liberties thereof, one being of the Quorum,<lb></lb>
by the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo232">Saint Katherine Creechurch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
London, That <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n324-3">Jane Hughes</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15100_occ102">Singlewoman</rs>
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and her illegitimate male Child namely<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n324-4">Thomas</rs>
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aged Fourteen Months were<lb></lb>
lately come to reside in their said Parish, not having obtain'd<lb></lb>
any legal Settlement there, and were likely to become charge-<lb></lb>
able thereto, unless timely prevented, which Complaint We<lb></lb>
the said Justices, upon due Proof made thereof, as well upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of the said Jane as otherwise, do<lb></lb>
adjudge to be true; and we do also adjudge the last legal<lb></lb>
Settlement of the said Jane<lb></lb>
to be in the said Parish of Saint Dunstan in<lb></lb>
the East<lb></lb>
and that thither to She ought by Law to be sent.</p>
<p n="325"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n325-1">Willm Gill</rs>
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These are therefore in His Majesty's Name to will and<lb></lb>
require you the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor<lb></lb>
of the said Parish of Saint Katherine Creechurch<lb></lb>
London, forthwith to remove and convey the said Jane<lb></lb>
and her said illegitimate Child for Nurture<lb></lb>
from and out of your said Parish, unto the said Parish of <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo233">Saint Dunstan in the East</rs>
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And them deliver unto the Church-Wardens and Overseers<lb></lb>
of the Poor there, or to some or one of them, together with<lb></lb>
this our order, who is and are hereby required to receive and<lb></lb>
provide for them according to Law. Given under our<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15100_date66">7th. Day of February One Thousand<lb></lb>
Seven Hundred and eighty eight</rs>
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.</p>
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