Middlesex

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 one
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 misdemeanors committed in the same
County.

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint John at
Hackney 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 John Walford< no role > and Benjamin Cowley< no role > Esquires two of his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex (where of out being-of the Quorum) bearing date the
Twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventy Three Sarah Pear< no role > was removed from the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
in the said County of Middlesex unto the said Parish of Saint John at Hackney in
the said County of Middlesex alledging the said Parish of Hackney to be the
Peace of her last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves
aggrieved Now upon hearing of the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the
respective Churchwardens and Overseers their Councel and Witnesses in and concerning
the Premisses It is Ordered that the said Appeal be and the same is hereby allowedand the
same is hereby allowedand the said Pass Warrant or Order of the said Two Justices is
hereby vacated and set aside And it is hereby further Ordered that the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint John at Hackney do forthwith Convey
and deliver back the said Sarah Pear (Together with a Copy of this Order) unto the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
aforesaid or to some or one of them who are hereby required to receive and provide for the
said Sarah Pear until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due
Course of Law.

By the Court
Butler