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At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo126">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at Hicks Hall in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo127">John Street</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County (by Adjournment) on Thursday the Twentyeth day of<lb></lb>
Februaryin the Twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
George the Third King of Great Britain Etc. Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n115-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n115-2">William Shakespear</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n115-3">John Spencer Colepeper</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n115-4">Benjamin Cowley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50616_occ44">Esquires</rs>
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and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King in the County<lb></lb>
aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses<lb></lb>
and other Misdemeanors committed in the same County</p>
<p n="116">Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo128">Saint<lb></lb>
Bartholomew the great</rs>
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London Have at this present Session exhibited their Petition<lb></lb>
and Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of an Order or Pass Warrant under the<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals of Two of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50616_occ45">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo129">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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bearing date the Tenth day of January last <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n116-1">Deborah Fisher</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50616_occ46">Single woman</rs>
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and her female Bastard Child namely <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n116-2">Mary</rs>
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aged five Weeks or thereabouts were<lb></lb>
removed from and out of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo130">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo131">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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into our said Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great London as<lb></lb>
the Place of their last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves<lb></lb>
aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been Alledged on<lb></lb>
either side by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers their Council and<lb></lb>
Witnesses in and concerning the Premisses It is Ordered that the said<lb></lb>
Pass Warrant or Order of the said two Justices be and the same is hereby<lb></lb>
Confirmed And it is further Ordered that the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great<lb></lb>
London Do maintain and provide for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n116-3">Deborah Fisher</rs>
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and Mary her<lb></lb>
Bastard Child until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due Course<lb></lb>
of Law</p>
<p n="117">By the Court.</p>
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