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<p n="413">To the Worshipful His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50681_occ113">Justice of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of Middx. in their General<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="414">The Able. Petition of the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50681_geo294">Parish of St. Giles in the Fields</rs>
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in the sd. County</p>
<p n="415"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That upwards of 2 yrs. ago one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n415-1">Alexander Fenton</rs>
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took a House of<lb></lb>
the yearly value of £20. in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50681_geo295">Monmonth Street</rs>
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in the sd. Parish and resided therein about<lb></lb>
4 Months and hath not obtained any Subsequent Settlement, That he hath a Wife named<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n415-2">Sarah</rs>
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, to whom he was Married about 20 years ago in the Parish Church of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50681_geo296">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
and hath by her 2 Children Vizt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n415-4">John</rs>
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aged about 12 years, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n415-3">Frederick</rs>
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aged about 4 years<lb></lb>
and 7 Months, and that his sd. Wife is now Pregnant with Child by him and very near the time of<lb></lb>
her delivery.</p>
<p n="416">That sevl. Months ago the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n416-1">Alexr. Fenton</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50681_n416-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
ran away and left his sd. Wife<lb></lb>
and two Children in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50681_geo297">Parish of St. James</rs>
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Westmr. and they being likely to become chargeable there<lb></lb>
were Removed by an order of 2 Justices from thence to the sd. Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50681_geo298">St. Giles,</rs>
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to which sd. Last mentioned<lb></lb>
Parish they have been actually chargeable during about 6 Weeks last past the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n416-2">Alexander<lb></lb>
Fenton</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50681_n416-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
having refused to allow his sd. Family any relief or Support altho he can and Constantly<lb></lb>
does earn one Guinea and nine Pence per week at his Business of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50681_occ114">Taylor</rs>
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& they were in<lb></lb>
great distress and totally incapable of procuring a maintenance</p>
<p n="417">That when the sd. Family first become chargeable as afsd. your Petitioners<lb></lb>
made complaint against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n417-1">Alexr. Fenton</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50681_n417-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n417-2">David Walker</rs>
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Esqr. one of this Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50681_occ115">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the sd. County who in consequence there of and upon the oath of the sd. Sarah issued<lb></lb>
his Warrant on the 6th. of May<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
last to apprehend the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n417-3">Alex Fenton</rs>
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as a Rogue & Vagabond,<lb></lb>
Who was there upon taken into custody and conveyed before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n417-4">Thomas Bishop</rs>
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Esqr. at the<lb></lb>
Rotation Office in Litch field Street, where he positively declared that he wd. not allow his said<lb></lb>
Wife or Children any Relief nor Indemnify the Parish from the charge of maintaining them<lb></lb>
and added that he knew the Magistrate could only Commit him to the House of Correction until the<lb></lb>
Sessions when he wd. be Discharged of course and in the mean time could live as well in Prison as<lb></lb>
out.</p>
<p n="418">That he was then Committed to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50681_geo299">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50681_geo300">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
this County as a Rogue and Vagabond untill the Present Sess: upon the oath his sd. Wife<lb></lb>
and complaint of your Petrs. And your Petrs. are informed he has been constantly employed ever<lb></lb>
since his Committment about Work sent him by a Master Taylor & earns almost as much Money<lb></lb>
as if he was at large, but still Obstinately & perversely refuses to Indemnify the Parish or Allow<lb></lb>
his Family ReliefAnd, in expectation of being Discharged at the gaol Delivery in this<lb></lb>
Present Sess: sets your Petrs. & the Laws of his County at defiance</p>
<p n="419">That your Petrs. having already been put to considerable expence in maintaining<lb></lb>
the sd. Family & there being a great probability of such charge not only continuing but encereasing by reason<lb></lb>
of the Pregnancy of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n419-1">Sarah</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50681_n419-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
, without any view of procuring an Indemnity the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n419-2">Alexr. Fenton</rs>
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</p>
<p n="420">Yours Petitioners therefore Humbly beg leave to represent the Case to your<lb></lb>
Woships & Pray that you will be pleased to Order the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n420-1">Alex Fenton</rs>
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to Indemnity their<lb></lb>
sd. Parish, Or that he be detained and kept in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50681_geo301">House of Correction</rs>
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to hard Labour for<lb></lb>
such time as you may think proper, or otherwise punished as his delinquency may<lb></lb>
be thought to merit</p>
<p n="421">And Your Petrs. will Pray Etc</p>
<p n="422"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50681_n422-1">Herbt. Robert</rs>
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.<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
for the Petitioners</p>
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