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the ninth day of January in the Ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign
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Lord George the Third by the Grace of God King of Great Britain Before
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and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned
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to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine
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diverse Felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanors committed in the
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George the Martyr in the
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Peace held for the said County On Monday the Fifth day of September last Exhibit
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their Petition and Appeal Settingforth That by Virtue of an Order or Pass Warrant
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under the hands and Seals of Sir
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Two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the City and Liberty of
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bearing date the Fifth day of August last
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vincent Clarke
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aged five years
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aged about Three Years and Francis
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aged about Fifteen Months were removed from the Parish of Saint
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Clement Danes
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in
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to the said Parish of
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as the place
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of their last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioners thought themselves Aggrieved
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Which Petition and Appeal came on to be heard in the same General Session in the
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presence of the parties and their Council And the final hearing and determining of
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the same was then Adjourned until the next General Quarter Session then and now
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last past And the same by diverse Orders in that behalf was further Adjourned
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until this present Session Now upon hearing of what hath been further alledged by
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the parties and their respective Council and upon examination of the matter of
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the said Appeal upon Oath Whereby it doth appear to this Court that
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deceased in the said Petition named while he was a Singleman and unmarried lived
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as a yearly hired servant with
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John Pindar
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Saint Clement
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for Seven Years at the yearly Wages ofand afterwards
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(and whilst he continued in the said Service) married the said Mary the poor woman
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in the said Petition above named and removed with his said Master into several
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different Parishes and at last came into the said Parish of
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and
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continued to serve him under the same hiring for upwards of Forty days and was
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then discharged and is since dead without gaining any other settlement Whereupon
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this Court doth Adjudge the last legal settlement of the said poor woman and the
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Children
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