Middlesex Sessions:
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February 1773

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At the GeneralSession of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the
King holden for the County of Middlesex at Hicks-Hall in Saint John Street in-
the said County (by Adjournment) on Thursdaythe Eighteenthday of
Februaryin 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 > , John Cox< no role > [..] John Spencer Colepeper< no role > Esqrs. 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
misdemeaners committed in the same County.

Whereas the Churchwarden's and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
in the said County Have at this present Session Exhibited their Petition and Appeal setting forth
That by Virtue of an Order or Pass Warrant under the Hands and Seals of Robert Pell< no role > and
David Wilmot< no role > Esquires Two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
(whereof one was of the Quorum) bearing date the Seventh day of January in the Year of our Lord-
1773 Thomas Dodd< no role > was removed from the parish of Saint John at Hackney in the said County
of Middlesex unto the said Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch as the place of his last legal
Settlement whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing the said
Appeal in the Presence and hearing of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish of Saint John at Hackney and they consenting by their Councel to the allowing the
said Appeal It is Ordered that the said Appeal be and the same 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 [..] Leonard Shoreditch do forthwith Convey and deliver
back the said Thomas Dodd< no role > (together with a Copy of this Order) unto the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint John at Hackney or to some or one
of them who are hereby required to receive and provide for the said Thomas Dodd until
they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by [..] due Course of Law

By the Court




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