Middx

At the General Session of the peace of our sovereign Lord the King holden for the
County of middx at Hicks Hall in St. John Street in the County aforesaid by adjornment on
Thurdsay the sixth day of December in the twenty foruth year of the reign of our sovereign
Lord George the second King of Great Britain Etc

Where as the Churchwardens and Overseers of their poor of the parish of St. Giles in
the fields in this County have exhibited their humble petition unto this Court
setting forth That on or about the twenty fourth day of September last as one Elizabeth
Jones< no role > single woman was warding & begging in this said parish she was delivered
of a Male Bastard child where by she and her said child became chargeable-
to the said parish, And that the petitioners did detain the said woman in custody
Untill the twenty Ninith day of November last when the petrs. conveyed & her
before George Errington< no role > Esqr. one of the Maties Justices of this peace for this County
who examined her and committed her to the House of Correction at
Clerkenwell where she now remains, And the petitioner therefore prayes-
that this court will be pleased to Order theTranswer of this County to pray the
petrs. such a sum of money as this Court shall adjudge a reasonable [..]
satisfaction for the charges the said parish has been put unto on account of-
the said Elizabeth Jones< no role > and her said child, And it appearing to this Court
upon Oath that thecomman charge made for the Months lying of any Woman
said Elizabeth Jones< no role > hath beenkeptdetained in the workhouse belonging
to the parishes of St. Giles in the fields and St. George Bloomsbury & maintained
there with her said child to the twenty Ninth day od November now last And that
the common charge made for the months lying in of any women in the said
[..] Workhouse in forty Shillings, and that according to the common calculation
of the charge of maintaining the poor in the said workhouse earth person
stands the said parishes in about one and twenty pence per week. This Court
if of opinion that the sum of forty shillings be allowed for the Months lying in of the
said Elizabeth jones of the said Elizabeth Jones< no role > child in the aforesaid workhouse
And also that the sum of two shillings six pence per week be allowed for
maintaining the said Elizabeth Jones< no role > and her said child from the expiration of the
said month (to wit) from the twenty first day of October last to the twenty Ninth day
of November then next being seven weeks amounting together to Seventeen shillings
and six pence, Which last mentioned sum together with his said sum of forty
shillings amount in the whole to the sum of two pounds seventeen shilling and
six pound, with this Court doth adjudge a reasonable satisfaction to the petitioner on account the premisses
And this Court both therefore by vertue of the state in such case in made Order that Mrs.
John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of this County do pay the said sum of two pounds seventeen
shillings and six pence into the [..] churchwarden & Overseers of the poor of the said
parish of St. Giles in the fields or and of them for the charges she said
Parish hath been put to on Account of the premisses
and that their receiptor the receipt of one of them
together with this Order shall be a sufficient Discharge
to the sd. Treasurer for such payment

By the Court
Waller