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December 1790
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on the 1st. December last ask'd Relief in the
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Jewry London was apprehended and taken before Mr. Alderman Sawbridge
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and by Order of that Date passed from thence to
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to the Parish of Coverley Gloucestershire as a Vagrant as his last
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legal settlement, from whence he was committed and on the same day
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taken into the Custody of the Pass Master at his place of Reception for
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those People at
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and put into a Cellar paved with Bricks and
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upon damp straw where he lay till he was removed on Wednesday the
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8th. Instant, being allowed 2d. and a Pennyworth of Victuals and Drink
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per day. That on Wednesday the 8th. he was with 14 or 16 more
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Paupers removed by a Cart on his Road to Coverley but that on Bays
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Water Hill in the
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in that Road the Cart Wheel
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broke and the Cart fell (which was about 11 or 12 o Clock) and in
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which state hardly able to stir the Driver left him and he with the
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assistance of some of the other Paupers Crawl'd on to Mr. Peakes who
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keeps the Black Lyon Alehouse on that Road and that the Master of
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that House let him stay for some Hours but that the Pass Master not
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returning with a Cart and it growing dark the Mr. Peake insisting
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upon his going to
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or that she would turn him out of her
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with her Man and which he did
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with the almost difficulty but upon his being so delivered to an Overseer of
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and the Tale told and he appearing so ill the Overseer thought
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fit to put the Man into a Hackney Coach and send him back to Peak's
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but Mr. Peake yet refused to take Cognizance of the Man and he was
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brought back again immediately and put into
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and taken care of and on the next day about Twelve o Clock the Pass
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examined and found the poor Man in an unfit state to remove and on the
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next Morning he died and he has been buried by the Officers of
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Resolved that the Pass Master to make a Return
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every Session of the number of Persons which have been passed from the
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end of the proceeding Session and that such Return be inserted in every
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County Paper in which Return is to be contained an Account of the state of
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