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Upon the Complaint of the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor
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, aforesaid, in the said
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, unto us whose Names are hereunto set, and Seals affixed, being two
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of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said
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and one of us of the Quorum, that
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his Wife & their Child namely
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about Thirteen Years have
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come to inhabit in the said
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, not having gained a legal Settlement there, and that
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the said Charles Downes Sarah his Wife & Sarah
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their Child are
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now chargeable to the said
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. We the said
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Justices, upon due Proof made thereof upon Oath, as otherwise, and likewise
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upon due Consideration had of the Premises, do adjudge the same to be true;
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and we do likewise adjudge, that the lawful Settlement of the said Charles Downes
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Sarah his Wife & Sarah their Child is in the said
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We do therefore require you, the said Church-
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, at Clerken-
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well, or some or one of you, to convey the said Charles Downes Sarah his
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Wife & Sarah their Child from and out of your said
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, to the said Parish
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of Saint Martin in the Fields and them to deliver to
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the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor there, or to some or one of them,
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together with this our Order, or a true Copy thereof, at the same Time shewing
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to them the Original; and we do also hereby require you, the said Church-
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to receive and provide for them according to Law. Given under
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our Hands and Seals, the 27th. Day of September in the
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Year of our Lord, 178 3.
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