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To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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, and
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to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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in the said
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Liberty and to each and every of them
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to wit.}
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J Phillips
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WHEREAS Complaint has been made unto Us,
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two of His Majesty's
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in and
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for the City and Liberty of
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aforesaid, (one
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whereof being of the Quorum) by the Churchwardens
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and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of
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Anne Wood
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of
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Tobias Wood
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Aged upwards of thirty years and her five Children
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by the said husband Vizt. time aged 8 years
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Joseph
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upwards of Six years
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upwards of four years
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aged three years and
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Seven Months have
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lately intruded, and come into the said Parish of
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, and are
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become Chargeable to the same, We the said Justices,
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upon Examination of the Premises upon Oath, and other
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Circumstances, do adjudge the same to be true, and do
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also adjudge the Place of the last legal Settlement of the
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and her five Children Vizt. Anne,
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Joseph
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, Mary, and Elizabeth to be in the Parish of Saint
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Martin in the Fields in the Liberty of
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Willm Timbrell
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THESE are therefore, in His Majesty's Name, to
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require you the said Church-Wardens and Over-
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seers of the Poor, on Sight hereof, to remove and convey
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the said
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and her
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said five Children
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from and out of your said Parish of
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, to the said Parish of
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Saint Martin in the
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and them deliver unto the Churchwardens and
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Overseers of the Poor there, or to some or one of them,
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together with this our Order, (or a true Copy hereof,)
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who are hereby required to receive and provide for
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them according to Law. Given under our
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Hands and Seals this 22d. Day of September 1773.
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