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January 1779

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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 fourteenth
Day of January - in the nineteenth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King
of Great Britain, Etc. Before Sir John Hawkins< no role >
Knight the Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet
David Wilmot< no role > James Spagg< no role >
Esquires , 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
Giles in the fields in the said County Have at this present Session Exhibited their Petition
and Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of an Order under the hands and Seals of
James Croft< no role > and John Goodchild< no role > Esquires two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
in and for the said County (one being of the Quorum) bearing date the tenth day of
December last William Bicknall< no role > aged about Seventy five years and Susannah< no role > his wife
aged about sixty years were removed and conveyed from the parish of St Luke Chelsea
in the said County to the said parish of St Giles in the fields as the place of their last legal
Settlement Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing the
said Appeal in the presence and hearing of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of
the parish of Saint Luke Chelsea and they consenting by their Counsel to the allowing the
said Appeal It is Ordered that the said Appeal be and the same is hereby allowed and the
said Order 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 Giles in the
fields do forthwith convey and deliver back the said William Bicknall< no role > and Susannah his
wife (together with a copy of this order) unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish
of Saint Luke Chelsea or to some or one of them who are hereby required to receive and
provide for the said William Bicknall< no role > and Susannah his wife until they can free themselves
from the charge thereof by due course of Law and It is further ordered that the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Luke Chelsea do forthwith pay or cause to
be paid unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Giles in the
fields or to some or one of them the Sum of one pound five Shillings for their charges and
expences in relieving and maintaining the said William Bicknall< no role > and Susannah his
wife since their said removal

By the Court




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