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 Thursday - the Eleventh day of April - in the Eleventh
Year of the Reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third
King of Great Britain Etc. Before Saunders Welch< no role >
Benjamin Cowley< no role > . Thomas Niccoll< no role > . John Brittell< 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 Misdemeanors committed in the same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
Paul Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster in the County of
Middlesex Did at the General Session of the Peace held in the Month of
September last Exhibit their Petition and Appeal Settingforth That by a
Pass Warrant or Order under the hands and seals of Thomas Kynaston< no role > and
Peter Planck< no role > Esquires two of his Majestys Justices of the Peace in and for
the City and Liberty of Westminster (one whereof being of the Quorum)
bearing date the Eighteenth day of August One thousand Seven hundred
and Seventy Mary Hudson< no role > wife of Michael Hudson< no role > (gone from her was
removed from the Parish of Saint Martin in the fields in the Liberty of
Westminster aforesaid to the said Parish of Saint Paul Covent Garden as the
place of her last legal settlement Whereby the Petitioners conceived
themselves to be Aggrieved Which said Appeal by several Adjournments
was duly Adjourned unto this day Now upon hearing of the said appeal
and what hath been alledged on either side by the respective Churchwardens
and Overseers their Council and Witnesses in and concerning the Premisses
It is Ordered that the said Pass Warrant or Order of the said two Justices
be and the same is hereby Confined accordingly And that the Church
wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Paul Covent
Garden do maintain and Provide for the said poor woman until they can
Free themselves from the charge thereof by due course of law.