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April 1793

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MIDDLESEX .


AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace
of our Lord the King, holden in and for the
County of Middlesex , at the Session-House for the said
County, (by adjournment) on Thursday
the Eleventh Day of April
in the Thirty third Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great
Britain, Etc. Before William Mainwaring< no role > ; William
Bleamire
< no role > , Rupert Clarke< no role > , John Bond< no role >
Esquires , and others their Fellows, Justices of our said
Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace in the County
aforesaid; and also to hear and determine divers
Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdemeanours com-
mitted in the same County.

WHEREAS the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
James within the Liberty of Westminster in the said County Did at the last
General Session of the Peace held in and for this County Exhibit their Petition and
Appeal setting forth That by virtue of an Order under the Hands and Seals of Granley
Thomas Kerby
< no role > and Henry James Pye< no role > Esquires two of His Majestys Justices of the Peace
acting in and for the County of Middlesex (one whereof being of the Quorum) bearing
date the 10th. day of February 1793 William Bates< no role > and Mary< no role > his Wife with their Four
Children Vizt. Thomas< no role > aged about 12 Years, Elizabeth< no role > aged about 11 Years, John< no role >
aged 6 Years and Joseph< no role > aged 4 Years were removed and conveyed from the Parish of
Saint John the Evangelist Westminster in the said County of Middlesex to the said Parish
of Saint James as the place of their last legal settlement whereby the Petitioners conceived
themselves aggrieved which said Appeal stood duly adjourned until this day

Now upon hearing the said Appeal, and what hath been alledged by the respective
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parishes their Counsel and Witnesses
in and concerning the Premises. IT IS ORDERED, that the said Appeal be, and the
same is hereby dismissed, and that the said Order of the said two Justices be, and the same is
hereby confirmed ; And IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint James Westminster do maintain
and provide for the said William Bates< no role > Mary< no role > his Wife and their said four Children
until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due Course of Law.

By the COURT
Selby




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