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To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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in the said County to receive and obey.
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John Staples
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Saml. Hawkins
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto Us,
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whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set, being Two
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of his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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in and for the
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, (One whereof being of the Quorum,) by the
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of St. Mary, Whitechapel
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, in the said County, That
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Mary Atkinson
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lately came to inhabit in the said
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, not having gained any legal Settlement there,
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not produced any Certificate acknowledging her to be
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settled elsewhere, and is likely to become chargeable
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to the said Parish: We, the said Justices, upon Examina-
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tion of the Premises upon Oath, and other Circumstances,
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do adjudge the same to be true, and do also adjudge the
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Place of the last legal Settlement of the said
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to be in the Parish of
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THESE are therefore, in his Majesty,s Name, and by
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Virtue of the Statutes in that Behalf, to require you
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on Sight hereof, to remove and convey the said
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from and out of yor said
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to the said Parish of
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and her deliver to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of
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the Poor there, or to some or one of them, together with
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this our Order, or a true Copy hereof, who are hereby re-
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quired to receive and provide for her
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according to Law.
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Given under our Hands and Seals this 23d
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Day of November in the Year of our Lord One
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Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety.
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