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to receive and convey, and to the Churchwardens, Chapel-
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or Precinet
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or either of them to receive
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WHEREAS
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Frances Price
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apprehended in the said
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as a
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Rogue and Vagabond
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, (videlicet) Wandering and Begging
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and upon Examination of the said
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taken before me upon Oath, (which Examination is hereunto annexed)
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it doth appear that her last legal Place of Settlement
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These are therefore to require you the said Constable and other Officer
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to Convey the said
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in the next direct Way to the said
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and there to deliver her to some Churchwarden, Chapel-Warden,
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or
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of the same Parish, to be provided for according
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to Law. And you the said Churchwarden, Chapel-Warden, or
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, are hereby required to receive the said
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and provide for her as aforesaid. Given under my Hand and Seal this
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20th. Day of April in the Year of Our Lord 1 761
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Benjamin Cox
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