Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden
for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the said
County (by adjournment) on Saturday the Twentieth day of April in the fifth
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great
Britain Etc Before Thomas Lane< no role > , John Spencer Colepeper< no role > . Thomas
Niccol< no role > , Henry Lambe< no role > Esquires and others their Fellows Justices of our said
Lord the King Assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also
to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanours.
committed in the same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Kingsbury
in the County of Middlesex Have at this Present Session Exhibited their Petition and
Appeal Settingforth That James Cox< no role > aged about Five Years and William Cox< no role > aged
about four years Children of William Cox< no role > Labourer and Sarah his wife both lately
deceased become chargeable to the said Parish And that Ann Cox< no role > of Pinnor in
the County aforesaid Widow the Grandmother of the said Children is a Person of
sufficient Ability to relieve maintain and provide for the said Children And that
James Belton< no role > of Ascot otherwise Estcourt in the said County Farmer the Father of
the said Sarah Cox< no role > is of sufficient Ability to maintain and Provide for his said
Grandchildren That the said James Bolton< no role > and Ann Cox< no role > had been respectively
applied to, to take upon them or one of them to relieve maintain provide and take
care of the said two poor Children who have severally refused so to do Whereby the
Petitioners have been put to great Charge on behalf of the said Parish