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Middlesex
June Session 1785}
For the Respondts.

St. Stephen Walbrook London Appellants
agst.
St. James Westminster Respondents

In an Appeal against an Order under the
Hands and Seals of James Dyson< no role > and John
Clarke
< no role > Esqrs. two of His. Majesty's Justices
of the Peace acting in and for the City and
Liberty of Westminster (one whereof being
of the Quorum) bearing date the Ninth day
of June 1783 whereby Rebecca Blang< no role > and
her Male Child to wit James< no role > aged Six
Months with her for Nurture were removed
and conveyed from and out of the said
Parish of St. James to the said Parish of
St. Stephen Walbrook as the place of the
last legal Settlement of the said Rebecca
Blang.

Case

Rebecca Blang< no role > the Pauper in her Examination taken on Oath
the 9th. day of June 1785 at the instance of the Respondents
upon which the above Order of Removal was grounded Saith
"That she is about Thirty Years old, and never was married
"that she was a yearly hired Servant to John Wyatt< no role > a Merchant
"in Walbrook in the Parish of Saint Stephen Walbrook in the City
"of London for fifteen Months (at one and the same hiring) at
"the Yearly Wages of Twelve Pounds that she quitted the same
"about Eighteen Months ago, and that she hath not lived a
"yearly hired Servant for one whole Year since. And further
"that she hath a Male Bastard Child living and with her to wit
"James aged near six months born in the House of Mr. Butteress
"in Brown Street in the Parish of Saint Giles in the fields in the
"County of Middlesex ".

To Prove the above case

Call Said Rebecca Blang< no role >
the Pauper .




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