[No. 13.]
Middlesex
, to wit
To the Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor
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Parish of Saint Mary Islington
in the County of Middlesex
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and to the Church Wardens and Overseers of the
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J Girdler
WHEREAS Complaint hath been made by the
Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of Saint Mary Islington
hereunto set, two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
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for the said County of Middlesex
(a
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of us of the Quorum) that
Catherine Pickles< no role >
Widow of
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Pickles Wim Cooper deceased and her Son named John
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Aged Seven Years together with Ruth Mary her Bartard Child
Aged Four Years have
lately intruded into your said Parish of Saint Mary Islington
there to inhabit as Parishioner s contrary to the Laws relation
to the Settlement of the Poor, and there likely to become
chargeable, if not timely prevented: AND WHEREAS, upon
due Examination and Enquiry made into the Premises, as said
as on the Oath of the said
Catherine Pickles< no role >
it appears unto Us, and we accordingly adjudge, that the said
Catherine Pickles< no role >
and her Son named
John< no role >
and
Ruth
Mary< no role >
her Bastard Child are
like to become chargeable unto the said Parish of Saint Mary
Islington
and that the last legal Place
Settlement of the said Catherine Pickles and her Son John
is in the said Parish of
Saint Mary Aldermary
Philip Dyot< no role >
THESE are therefore in his Majesty's Name, to order and require
you the said Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of Saint Mary Islington
aforesaid, that you
or some of you, doth forthwith remove and convey the said
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Catherine Pickles< no role >
and her Son John (together with
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the Bastard Child for nurture from your said Parish of Saint
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Islington
to the said Parish of Saint Mary
Aldermary
and them
to the Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor there
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or one of them, together with this our Warrant or C
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true Copy hereof; whereby they are likewise required
Majesty's Name, and by Virtue of the Statutes in the
made, forthwith to receive the said
Catherine Pickles< no role >
John her Son and Ruth Mary her Bastard Child for
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into their said Parish and provide for them
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as their own Parishioner s GIVEN under our Hands a
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the Nineteenth Day of January in the Year
our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy four
Sold by J. Coles and Son, Stationers, at No. 21. in Fleet
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