Middlesex Sessions:
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January 1773

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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 fourteenth day 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 Shakespeare< 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 same County.

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Giles in the
Fields in the County of Middlesex Did at the General Quarter Session of the Peace held in the
Month of October last Exhibit their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by virtue of an Order
of Settlement or Removal under the Hands and Seals of William Kelynge< no role > and George Stubbs< no role > Esquires
Two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex bearing date the Fourteenth
day of September then last William Welch< no role > aged about Seventeen Years was removed and conveyed
from the Parish of Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster to the said Parish of Saint
Giles in the Fields as the Place of his last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioners thought
themselves aggrieved Which said Appeal stood adjourned unto this Day Now upon hearing
the said Appeal and what hath been alledged on either side by the respective Churchwardens
and Overseers their Council and Witness in and concerning the Premisses It is Ordered
that the said Appeal be and the same is hereby allowed and the said Pass Warrant or Order of the
said Two Justices is hereby vacated and set a side And it is further Ordered that the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Giles in the Fields
do forthwith Convey and Deliver back the said William Welch< no role > (Together with a Copy of this Order)
unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Margaret
Westminster or to some or one of them who are hereby required to receive and provide for the
said William Welch< no role > until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due Course of
Law.

By the Court
Butler




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