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By Virtue of the Statute made (in the Three and Fortieth Year of the
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Reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth) for the Relief
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of the Poor; these are to Will and Require you, whose Names are here
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under written, that you, together with the Church-Wardens of your
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Parish for the Time being, do, according to the same Statute, take Order
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from Time to Time (for this Year to come) for the setting to Work all
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the Poor within your Parish, (as well marry'd as unmarry'd) that are
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able to work, and have no Means to maintain themselves, nor use no
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ordinary and daily Trade of Life to get their Living by: And also for the
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placing out as Apprentices all such Children, within your said Parish, as
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are fit to put forth, whose Parents are not able to keep and maintain
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them: And also for the raising of a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp,
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Wool, Thread, Iron, and other necessary Ware and Stuff, in your said
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Parish for that Purpose: And also for the providing of necessary Relief
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for all such Poor within your said Parish, as are lame, old, blind, im-
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potent, and unable to work; wherein if you be found negligent, or
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shall fail to meet once a Month, to confer together for the Purpose afore-
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said, then you are to forfeit 20s. a-piece for every Month that you
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shall be found remiss or careless therein. And therefore see that you fail
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not in the Premises at your Perils. Dated the
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of our SovereignLord George the Secondby the Grace of God of Great
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Britain, France, and Ireland,KingDefender of the Faith, Etc.
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