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April 1797

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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 Guildhall in King Street , Westminster , in the said County on Monday in
the week next after the close of Easter to wit the Twenty Seventh Day of April in the Thirty Seventh Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before William
Mainwarring
< no role > William Bleamire< no role > , Rupert Clarke< no role > , David Dean< 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
committed in the same County. That Session of the Peace is adjourned, by the aforesaid Justices of
our said Lord the King abovenamed and others their Fellows aforesaid, here untill Tuesday
the Twenty Fifth day of the same Month of April at the hour of Ten in the Forenoon
of the same Day, to be holden at the Session House upon Clerkenwell Green , in and for the said County,
and that at the same Session of the Peace being holden by Adjournment aforesaid, at the Session House
aforesaid, in and for the said County, on the said Tuesday the Twenty Fifth Day of
April in the Year aforesaid before the said Justices of our said Lord the King
abovenamed, and others their Fellows aforesaid. That Session of the Peace is adjourned by the afore-
said Justices of our said Lord the King above named, and others their Fellows aforesaid, here untill
Wednesday the Twenty Sixth Day of the same Month of April at the Hour and
Place last abovesaid, and that at the same Session of the Peace, being holden by Adjournment afore-
said, at the Session House, aforesaid, in and for the said County, on the said Wednesday the
Twenty Sixth Day of April in the Year aforesaid before the said Justices of our
said Lord the King abovenamed, and others their Fellows aforesaid. That Session of the Peace
is adjourned by the aforesaid Justices of our said Lord the King abovenamed, and others
their Fellows aforesaid here until Thursday the Twenty Seventh Day of the same Month
of April at the Hour and Place last abovesaid. And that at the same Session of the Peace
being holden by Adjournment aforesaid, at the Session House aforesaid, in and for the said County, on
the said Thursday the Twenty Seventh Day of April in the Year aforesaid before
the said Justices of our said Lord the King abovenamed, and others their Fellows aforesaid.

WHEREAS the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Enfield in the County of
Middlesex Did at the last General Session of the Peace held in and for this County Exhibit
their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by an order made under the Hands and Seals of
I. Floud and William Brodie< no role > Esquires two of His Majestys Justices of the Peace acting in and for the
County of Middlesex bearing date the Eighteenth day of January 1797 Elizabeth Cardiff< no role > an
Illegitimate Child of Mary Cardiff< no role > deceased (was removed and conveyed from the Parish of Saint
Mary Stoke Newington in the said County of Middlesex to the said Parish of Enfield as the place of
her last legal settlement whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved which said
Appeal stood duly adjourned untill 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 allowed and the said Order of the said two Justices
is hereby vacated and set aside; And IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Churchwardens and Overseers
of the Poor of the said Parish of Enfield do forthwith convey and deliver
back the said Elizabeth Cardiff (together with a Copy of this
Order) unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Mary Stoke
Newington who are hereby required to receive and provide for the said Elizabeth Cardiff
untill they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due course of Law.

By the COURT,




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