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At the General Sessions 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 Thursdaythe fourteenthday of January
in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King
of Great Britain Etc. Before Sir
John Hawkins< no role >
Knight
Benjamin Cowley< no role >
William Shakespear< no role >
John Walford< 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 said County
Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of Saint Luke
Chelsea
in the County of Middlesex
Have at this present Session Exhibited their
Petition and Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of a Pass Warrant or Order under the
Hands and Seals of Philip Dyot< no role >
and Stephen Clarke< no role >
Esquires
Two of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace
for the County of Middlesex
(one whereof being of the Quorum)
bearing date the nineteenth day of December last Elizabeth Henley< no role >
was removed and
Conveyed from the
Parish of Saint Giles in the Fields
in the said County of Middlesex
to the said Parish of Saint Luke Chelsea
as the Place of her last legal Settlement
Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves to be aggrieved Now upon hearing of
the said Appeal and what hath been alledged on either sideby the respective
Churchwardens and Overseers their Councel 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 Confirmed And it is further Ordered that the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Luke Chelsea
domaintain and provide for the said Elizabeth Henley< no role >
until they can free
themselves from the charge thereof by due Course of Law
By the Court
Butler