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January 1776

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MIDDLESEX .


AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace
of our Lord the King, holden in and for the County
of Middlesex , at Hicks-Hall , in Saint John-Street ,
(by adjournment) on Thursday the eleventh
Day of January in the Sixteenth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of
Great Britain, Etc. Before Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knt.
David Wilmot< no role > David Walker< no role > John Sherwood< 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 misdemeanours committed
in the same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish
of Saint Mary Whitechapel in the County of Middlesex Did at the
General Session of the peace held for this County in the month of December
last exhibit their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by a
Warrant or order under the Hands and Seals of D Wilmot and I
Penleaze Esquires two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for
the County of Middlesex (one whereof is of the Quorum) bearing date the
First day of November 1775 Susannah Bell< no role > Singlewoman and her
Female Bastard Child named Susannah< no role > aged six Months and
upwards (who is with her for nurture) were removed and conveyed
from the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex
aforesaid to the said Parish of Saint Mary Whitechapel as the place of
the last legal settlement of the said Susannah Bell< no role > whereby the
Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved which said Appeal stood duly
adjourned unto this day Now upon hearing the said Appeal and
what hath been alledged by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers
of the poor of the said Parishes their Counsel and Witnesses in and
concerning the premises It is ordered that the said Appeal be and the
same is hereby dismissed and the said Warrant or Order of the
said two Justices is hereby confirmed and It is further Ordered that
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of Saint
Mary Whitechapel do maintain and provide for the said Susannah
Bell
< no role > and her Child until they can free themselves from the charge
thereof by due course of Law

By the Court




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