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therefore praying this Court will Order the Treasurer of this County to pay
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the Petitioners the Said Sum of One Pound twelve Shillings and Six pence
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expended by them as aforesaid or Such other Sum of Money as this Court
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Shall adjudge a reasonable Satisfaction, This Court upon hearing
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of what was alledged concerning the Premisses being Satisfied that the
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Substance of the Said Petition is true Doth Order than Mr. John
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Higgs Treasurer of this County do pay to the Churchwardens or Overseers of the poor
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of the said Parish the Sum of One Pound twelve Shillings and Sixpence of
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lawfull Money of Great Britain which this Court doth adjudge a
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reasonable Satisfaction for the Charges the Said Parish hath been put
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to on Account of the Said Mary Burgen, And that their Receipt
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together with this Order or a true Copy thereof Shall be a Sufficient
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Discharge to the
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for Such payment.
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By adjornment on
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of
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Friday the
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7th. Day of April, 1749
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Order for Mr. Higgs the
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Trearer
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to pay £2.1s.0d. to
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the Churchwardens or
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of the
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Danes for their Charges
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on Account of
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Standfast a
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Upon the humble Petition of the Churchwardens & Overseers of the
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Poor of the Parish of
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St. Clement Danes
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in this County exhibited unto
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this Court Setting forth that
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Ann Standfast
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Singlewoman
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a
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not having a Settlement in the Said Parish of
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St. Clement Danes
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, was on
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the Seventh day of March last delivered of a Male Bastard Child in
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Clements Lane in the Said Parish of
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St. Clement Danes
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, by means whereof
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the Inhabitants of the Said Parish were obliged necessarily to Expend the
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Sum of Two Pounds One Shilling for the lying in and Maintenance of the
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Said Ann Standfast and Child, And that in pursuance of an Act of
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Parliament made in the Seventeenth Year of his present Majesty's Reign
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Intitled An Act to amend and make more effectual the Laws
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relating to Rogues Vagabonds and other idle and disorderly Persons and
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to Houses of Correction the Petitioners conveyed the Said Ann Standfast to one
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of
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his Majesty
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Justices of the Peace
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for this County who examined the Said
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Ann Stand fast and Committed her to the House of Correction pursuant to
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the Said Statute, And the Petitioners therefore praying this Court will
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Order the Treasurer of this County to pay the Petitioners the Said Sum of Two
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Pounds one Shilling expended by them as aforesaid or Such other Sum of
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Money as this Court Shall adjudge a reasonable Satisfaction, This
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Court upon hearing what was alledged concerning the Premisses being
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Satisfied that the Substance of the Said Petition is true, Doth Order
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that Mr.
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John Higgs
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Treasurer
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of this County do pay to the Churchwardens or
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Overseers of the Poor
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of the Said Parish the Sum of Two Pounds one Shilling
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