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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King begun and holden
for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the said
County on Monday in the Week next after the Feast of the Epiphany to wit
the ninth day of January in the Ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third by the Grace of God King of Great Britain Before
John Hawkins< no role > . Benjamin Cowley< no role > Saunders Welch< no role > , John Spencer< no role > Colepeper
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
diverse Felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanors committed in the
same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
George the Martyr in the County of Middlesex Did at the General Session of the
Peace held for the said County On Monday the Fifth day of September last Exhibit
their Petition and Appeal Settingforth That by Virtue of an Order or Pass Warrant
under the hands and Seals of Sir John Fielding< no role > Knight and Francis Caryl< no role > Esquire
Two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the City and Liberty of
Westminster bearing date the Fifth day of August last Mary Clarke< no role > Widow of
vincent Clarke< no role > deceased with her five Children (to wit) John< no role > Aged Eleven years Sarah< no role >
Aged Ten years Ann< no role > aged five years Vincent< no role > aged about Three Years and Francis
aged about Fifteen Months were removed from the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in
the Liberty of Westminster to the said Parish of Saint George the Martyr as the place
of their last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioners thought themselves Aggrieved
Which Petition and Appeal came on to be heard in the same General Session in the
presence of the parties and their Council And the final hearing and determining of
the same was then Adjourned until the next General Quarter Session then and now
last past And the same by diverse Orders in that behalf was further Adjourned
until this present Session Now upon hearing of what hath been further alledged by
the parties and their respective Council and upon examination of the matter of
the said Appeal upon Oath Whereby it doth appear to this Court that Vincent Clarke< no role >
deceased in the said Petition named while he was a Singleman and unmarried lived
as a yearly hired servant with John Pindar< no role > Esquire in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes for Seven Years at the yearly Wages ofand afterwards
(and whilst he continued in the said Service) married the said Mary the poor woman
in the said Petition above named and removed with his said Master into several
different Parishes and at last came into the said Parish of Saint George and
continued to serve him under the same hiring for upwards of Forty days and was
then discharged and is since dead without gaining any other settlement Whereupon
this Court doth Adjudge the last legal settlement of the said poor woman and the
Children