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December 1737

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[..] if after the
ward admitted
the word Tenant
should not be
incerted
[..] after the word
Family it should
not be
[..] it in stead of
the word Family
it should not
be his said wife
& children


the matter of the said appeal was further adjourned by this Count untill
this present Friday the Ninth day of December instant, Now upon hearing
of the aforesaid appeal against the said Order of removal and of what
was alledged by Mr. Theed of Councel for the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the poor of the said Parish of St. Giles in the fields and
also by Mr. Serjeant Hayward of Councel for the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the poor of the said parish of Castle Hedingham It
appeareth to this Court that the Churchwardens & Overseers of the
poor of the said parish of Castle Hedingham by Certificate under their
hands & seals bearing date the eighteenth day of February in the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty nine attested
by two Witnesses and duly allowed & confirmed by two of his Majesty's
Justices of the peace for the said County of Essex did own and
acknowledge the said Jonathan Ward< no role > and his said wife & children
to be Inhabitants legally settled in their said parish of Castle
Hedingham , And that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and thirty the said Jonathan Ward< no role > being a Stone Mason's
Labourer went about the Country with his Family and worked at
several places atgreat way distanta distance from the said parish of Castle
Hedingham , and hearing that his uncle John ward< no role > was dead he went over to
withersfield in the County of Suffolk , and found that two Copy hold
to Hages in withersfield holden of the manner of withersfield [..] had come to him by descent from his Sd.
uncle, And that about may in the said year one thousand seven
hundred and thirty the said Jonathan Ward< no role > was admitted
Tenant to the aforesaid Cottages to held to him [..] according to the Custom of the said ment And that the said Jonathan Ward< no role > then
sending for his saidFamily Wife & Children he and they lodged for some time
in the Town of withersfield, aforesaid, And after they had gott some
conveniencys the said Jonathan Ward< no role > and his saidFamily Waits & Children
Went and resided in one of the said Cottages about Nine Months, And
that in about three [..] weeks after he had so fixed his Family in one
of the said Cottages he went to Cambridge to get work where he lodged
(it being about twelve miles distant from [..] Withersfield aforesaid)
but weekly or very frequently came home to his Family on the Saturday
and returned on Monday morning, But when the work was
finished at Cambridge he returned to withersfield aforesaid to his
Family, and stay'd with them about ten days, and then went to get
work at Chelmsford in the County of Essex aforesaid, which being at a
great distance from Withersfield aforesaid he sent for his Family and
hath not since resided in withersfield aforesaid, And that the said
Jonathan ward< no role > after Nine Month's residence in one of the said Cottages
as above stated sold both the said Cottages for six guineas with the
in cumbrance of the Fine and fees of [..] his Admission, whereupon and on




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