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<p n="1685">To the Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50915_occ348">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo1118">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions assembled.</p>
<p n="1686">The Humble Petition of the ChurchWardens<lb></lb>
and Overseers of the Poor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo1119">Parish of<lb></lb>
Wandsworth</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo1120">County of Surrey</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1687"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="1688">That by an Order bearing date the 26th. day of August<lb></lb>
1795 under the Hands and Seals of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n1688-45">Mich. Downs</rs>
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and R. Johnson<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50915_occ349">Esquires</rs>
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two of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50915_occ350">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo1121">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo1122">County of Middlesex</rs>
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grounded<lb></lb>
on the Complaint of the Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor<lb></lb>
of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo1123">Saint James</rs>
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within the said City and County, for<lb></lb>
that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n1688-1">Dessemay Peckford</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50915_n1688-1" type="surname" value="Peckford"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50915_n1688-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
widow of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n1688-2">John Peckford</rs>
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had lately<lb></lb>
intruded and come into the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo1124">Saint James</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
become chargeable.</p>
<p n="1689">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n1689-1">Mich. Downs</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50915_n1689-1" type="surname" value="Downs"></interp>
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and R. Johnson upon<lb></lb>
examination of the Premises upon cath and other Circumstances<lb></lb>
did adjudge the same to be true and did also adjudge the Place<lb></lb>
of the last legal Settlement of the said Dessmay Peckford to be in<lb></lb>
your Petitioners said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo1125">Parish of Wandsworth</rs>
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By which said order<lb></lb>
your Petitioners think themselves Aggrieved</p>
<p n="1690">Your Petitioners humbly pray, That your Worships<lb></lb>
will take th same into consideration, and grant<lb></lb>
them such relief as the nature of their case<lb></lb>
May require.</p>
<p n="1691">And</p>
<p n="1692">Your Petitioners Shall ever pray.</p>
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