Middlesex Sessions:
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January 1771

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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 Thursday the Seventeenth day of January
in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Third King of Great Britain Etc. Before John Hawkins< no role >
Benjamin Cowley< no role > , Thomas Niccoll< no role > , William Shakespear< 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 diverse Felonies
Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed in the
same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
Mary Lebone in this County Have at this Present Session Exhibited their Petition
and Appeal Setting forth That by Virtue of a Varrant Pass under the hand and Seal of
George Wrighte< no role > Esquire one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the City and
Liberty of Westminster , bearing date the Seventh day of January instant Mary
French
< no role > was removed and conveyed from the Parish of Saint James within the
said City and Liberty of Westminster , to the said Parish of Saint Mary lebone
as the Place of her last legal settlement. Whereby the Petitioners apprehended
themselves Aggrieved Now upon hearing of the said Appeal in the Presence.
and hearing of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish
of Saint James and they consenting by their Council to the allowing of the said
Appeal It is Ordered that the said appeal be and the same is hereby allowed
And the said Pass Order of the said Justice is hereby vacated and set aside
and it is further Ordered that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor
of the said Parish of Saint Mary Lebone do forth Convey and deliver back
the said Poor woman (together with a Copy of this Order) unto the Churchwarden
and Overseers of the poor of the said Parish of Saint James or to some or one of
them who are hereby required to receive and provide for her until they can
Free themselves from the charge thereof by due course of law.

By the Court
Butler




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