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to wit.}
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Prickle Meuse Mayer
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in the said City
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and to every of them.
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Paul Le Mesurer
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto us, two
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of his Majesty's
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for the City of
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London and Liberties thereof, one being of the Quorum, by
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the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
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John Cockburn
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Mary
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his
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wife
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have
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lately come to reside in their said Parish, not having obtained
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any legal Settlement there, and are likely to became charge-
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able thereto, unless timely prevented, which Complaint We
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the said Justices, upon due Proof made thereof, as well upon
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the Oath of the said Mary as otherwise, do
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adjudge to be true; and we do also adjudge the last legal
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Settlement of the said John and his said wife
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to be in the Said Parish of Saint Dionis backchurch
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and that thitherto they ought by Law to be sent.
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These are therefore in His Majesty's Name to will and re-
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quire you the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of
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the said Parish of
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London, forthwith to remove and convey the said John
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Cockburn and said
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Wife
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from and out of your said Parish, unto the Said Parish of
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And them deliver unto the Church-Wardens and Overseers
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of the Poor there, or to some or one of them, together with this
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our Order, who is and are hereby required to receive and pro-
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vide for them according to Law. Given under our Hands
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and Seals, this
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24 Day of January One Thousand
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Seven Hundred and Ninety four
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