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To William Mainwaring< no role > Esqr and others his Majestys
Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex assembled
at the General Sessions of the peace holden at the
Sessions House in Clerkenwell Green in and for the
said County of Monday the 20th. day of February 1786

The humble Petition of the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Walcot in the City of
Bath

Sheweth

That William Gowan< no role > and John Clarke< no role > Esquires two of his Majestys Justices of the
Peace acting in and for the City and Liberty of Westminster in the County of
Middlesex by an order bearing date the 22d day of October 1785 setting
forth that a complaint had been made unto them by the Churchwarden
and Overseer of the Poor of the Parish of Saint James within the
Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex that Elizabeth
Phillips< no role > Widow of James Phillips< no role > and her Child Sarah< no role > aged nine
years had lately intruded and come into the Parish of Saint James
and were become chargeable to the same and that they the said
William Gowan< no role > and John Clarke< no role > upon Examination of the premisses
upon Oath and other circumstances did adjudge the same to be true
and did also [..] adjudge the place of the last legal Settlement of
the said Elizabeth Phillips< no role > and he said Child to be in the Parish of
Walcot in the City of Bath And the said William Gowan< no role > and John
Clarke< no role > did accordingly require the said Churchwardens and Oveseers
of the Poor of the Parish of Saint James to remove and convey the
said Elizabeth Phillips< no role > and her Child from the said Parish of Saint
James to the said Parish of Walcot which they have done accordingly

That your Petitioners conceive themselves aggrieved by the said
order of removal for by an Examination of the said Elizabeth Phillips< no role >
since taken on Oath she has declared that her Husband James
Phillips< no role > about ten years ago rented in the Parish of Saint James
Westminster two rooms at 7,,7s P Annum of one Mr. Tubb and
whilst he occupied those rooms he rented a Collers Stall in the carrd
Parish at 2s. to Week of one Henry Phillips< no role > and continued to rent both
several years till his death and that since her said Husbands
death she and her Daughter have been supported by the Parish officers
of Saint James