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April 1784

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[..] now living at four month and desired in Order to get at the Truth of
[..] Settlement to send to her but that was not Comply'd with

That your Petitioner sign'd the said Examination annes'd to
said [..] being desired so to do though at the same time your Petitioner
[..] that he said Examination was not right nor was she inform'd that the
[..] to the said Pass Contain'd a reference where in your Petitioner was
[..] and had been Apprenhended as such by one Thomas
Lithgow
< no role > one of the Beddles of the said Parish of Saint George

That your Petitioner on the 1st day of March last was
[..] Smith said Work house to the House of the Reverend Mr. Mayo one of
his Majesty's Justice of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex where your
Petitioner has been since inform'd that she was Charged before the said Justice
of the said Thomas Lithgow with being a Vagabond (vizt.) Wandering abroad and
[..] in the Open [..] in the said Parish of Saint George

That the said Reverend Mr. Mayo did not acquaint your
Petitioner with the Charge made by the said Thomas Lithgow.< no role >

That your Petitioner was by the said Vagrant Pass forth
with Convey'd by the said Thomas Lithgow from the said Parish of Saint Geo :
to the said Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell and there delivered to one of the
Overseers of the Poor.

That your Petitioner Lodg'd in the said Parish of Saint
George three years and upwards preceding her being Convey'd from thence as
aforesaid and never Wandered abroad and laid in the Open Air as stated
that the said Pass nor committed any Petr. of vagrancy whatsoever either in
the said Parish of Saint George or Elswhere but on the Contrary hath
Constantly demean'd herself in a decent and reputable manner and never
was in a Situation to be allowd under the Odious discription of a Vagabond

That your Petitioner conceives herself Aggrieved by the Act
of the said Justice in having sign'd the before mentioned Pass declaring that
your Petitioner had been Apprehened as a Vagabond and by your Petitioner
having been convey'd as such out of the said Parish of Saint George to the said
Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell .




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