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To the Worshipful His Majestys
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Justice of the Peace
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for the County of Middx. in their General
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Session of the Peace Assembled
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The Able. Petition of the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the
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Parish of St. Giles in the Fields
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in the sd. County
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Sheweth
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That upwards of 2 yrs. ago one
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Alexander Fenton
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took a House of
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the yearly value of £20. in
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Monmonth Street
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in the sd. Parish and resided therein about
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4 Months and hath not obtained any Subsequent Settlement, That he hath a Wife named
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Sarah
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, to whom he was Married about 20 years ago in the Parish Church of
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St. Margaret Westmr
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.
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and hath by her 2 Children Vizt.
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John
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aged about 12 years, and
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Frederick
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aged about 4 years
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and 7 Months, and that his sd. Wife is now Pregnant with Child by him and very near the time of
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her delivery.
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That sevl. Months ago the sd.
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Alexr. Fenton
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ran away and left his sd. Wife
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and two Children in the
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Parish of St. James
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Westmr. and they being likely to become chargeable there
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were Removed by an order of 2 Justices from thence to the sd. Parish of
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St. Giles,
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to which sd. Last mentioned
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Parish they have been actually chargeable during about 6 Weeks last past the sd.
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Alexander
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Fenton
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having refused to allow his sd. Family any relief or Support altho he can and Constantly
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does earn one Guinea and nine Pence per week at his Business of a
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Taylor
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& they were in
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great distress and totally incapable of procuring a maintenance
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That when the sd. Family first become chargeable as afsd. your Petitioners
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made complaint against the said
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Alexr. Fenton
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to
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David Walker
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Esqr. one of this Majestys
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Justices
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of the Peace
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for the sd. County who in consequence there of and upon the oath of the sd. Sarah issued
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his Warrant on the 6th. of May
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last to apprehend the sd.
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Alex Fenton
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as a Rogue & Vagabond,
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Who was there upon taken into custody and conveyed before
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Thomas Bishop
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Esqr. at the
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Rotation Office in Litch field Street, where he positively declared that he wd. not allow his said
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Wife or Children any Relief nor Indemnify the Parish from the charge of maintaining them
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and added that he knew the Magistrate could only Commit him to the House of Correction until the
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Sessions when he wd. be Discharged of course and in the mean time could live as well in Prison as
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out.
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That he was then Committed to the
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House of Correction
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at
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Clerkenwell
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in
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this County as a Rogue and Vagabond untill the Present Sess: upon the oath his sd. Wife
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and complaint of your Petrs. And your Petrs. are informed he has been constantly employed ever
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since his Committment about Work sent him by a Master Taylor & earns almost as much Money
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as if he was at large, but still Obstinately & perversely refuses to Indemnify the Parish or Allow
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his Family ReliefAnd, in expectation of being Discharged at the gaol Delivery in this
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Present Sess: sets your Petrs. & the Laws of his County at defiance
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That your Petrs. having already been put to considerable expence in maintaining
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the sd. Family & there being a great probability of such charge not only continuing but encereasing by reason
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of the Pregnancy of the sd.
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Sarah
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, without any view of procuring an Indemnity the sd.
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Alexr. Fenton
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Yours Petitioners therefore Humbly beg leave to represent the Case to your
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Woships & Pray that you will be pleased to Order the sd.
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Alex Fenton
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to Indemnity their
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sd. Parish, Or that he be detained and kept in the
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House of Correction
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to hard Labour for
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such time as you may think proper, or otherwise punished as his delinquency may
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be thought to merit
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And Your Petrs. will Pray Etc
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Herbt. Robert
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.
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for the Petitioners
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