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<p n="73">To the Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50937_occ14">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50937_geo75">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their General Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
assembled.</p>
<p n="74">The Humble Petition of the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the Poor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50937_geo76">Parish of Battersea</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the County of Surry.</p>
<p n="75"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by an order bearing date the 19th. day of May 1797<lb></lb>
under the Hands and Seals of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n75-1">Joseph Moser</rs>
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and H Cosser<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50937_occ15">Esquires</rs>
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two of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50937_occ16">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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acting in<lb></lb>
and for the City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50937_geo77">Westminster</rs>
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grounded on the<lb></lb>
Complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50937_geo78">Saint Margaret</rs>
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in the said City and Liberty,<lb></lb>
That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n75-2">Jane Wood</rs>
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wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n75-3">James Wood</rs>
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and her four Children<lb></lb>
namely <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n75-4">William</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-4" type="given" value="William"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-4" type="surname" value="Wood"></interp>
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aged Six years, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n75-27">Sarah</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-27" type="given" value="Sarah"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-27" type="surname" value="Wood"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-27" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
aged Four years<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n75-25">Jane</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-25" type="given" value="Jane"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-25" type="surname" value="Wood"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-25" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
aged three years and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n75-82">Mary</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-82" type="given" value="Mary"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-82" type="surname" value="Wood"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n75-82" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
aged One year have lately<lb></lb>
intruded and come into the said Parish of Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
and become Chargeable.</p>
<p n="76">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n76-1">Joseph Moser</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n76-1" type="surname" value="Moser"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n76-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and H. Cosser, upon<lb></lb>
examination of the Premises upon Oath and other Circumstances<lb></lb>
did adjudge the same to be true, and did also adjudge<lb></lb>
the Place of the last legal Settlement of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50937_n76-2">Jane Wood</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n76-2" type="given" value="Jane"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50937_n76-2" type="surname" value="Wood"></interp>
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<lb></lb>
and her said Four Children to be in your Petitioners said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50937_geo79">Parish of Battersea</rs>
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. By which said Order your Petitioners<lb></lb>
think themselves aggrieved.</p>
<p n="77">Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, That<lb></lb>
Your Worships will take the same into Consideration<lb></lb>
and grant them such relief as the nature of their<lb></lb>
case may requrie.</p>
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