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April 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 Eighteenth
Day of Aprilin the Sixteenth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of
Great Britain, Etc. Before Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knight
David Wilmot< no role > John Sherwood< no role > David Walker< 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 Tresspasses
and other misdemeanours committed in the same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of
Saint Mary at Hill London Have at this presents Session Exhibited their
Petition and Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of an Order or pass
Warrant under the Hands and Seals of William Addington< no role > Esquire
and Sir John Fielding< no role > Knight two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the said County (one whereof being of the Quorum) bearing date
the second of March 1776 Elizabeth Barbrook< no role > Widow of William Barbook< no role >
was removed and conveyed by the Overseers of the poor of the Liberty of the
Rolls in the said County of Middlesex from and out of their said Liberty
of the Rolls to the said parish of Saint Mary at Hill as the place of her
last legal settlement Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves
aggrieved 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 allowed and the said
order or pass Warrant of the said two Justices is hereby vacated and
set aside and It is further ordered that the Churchwardens and Overseers
of the poor of the parish of Saint Mary at Hill do forthwith convey and
deliver back the said Elizabeth Barbrook unto theChurchwardens and
Overseers of the poor of the Liberty of the Rolls who are hereby required
to receive and provide for the said Elizabeth Barbrook until they
can free themselves from the charge thereof by due course of Law

By the Court.




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