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To the Rt Honrble Sr
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William Stewart
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Lord Maior
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of the
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City of London
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and to the Rt Worpll the rest of his Maties
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Justices of the Peace
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for the same City in their general quarter Sessions
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Assembled
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The humble Petition of the Churchwardens & Overseers of the
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Poor of the
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Sheweth
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That
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Mary Watts
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the
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Daughter
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of
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Timothy Watts
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Elizabeth
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his
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wife
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is left in the said
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parish of St Giles without cripplegate
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and is
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already become a great charge thereunto and unless timely prevented
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is likely so to continue, which said Father and mother of the said
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Mary
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Watts
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are both dead But one
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Edward Buxton
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of the said parish
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Distiller
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and
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John Moore
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of the
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parish of St Olave Hartstreet
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London
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Winercoper
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are Grand fathers of the said
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Mary Watts
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and either of them persons of
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Sufficient Ability to maintain her, and not to burthen your Petitioners
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with the charge thereof which said
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Edward Buxton
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John Moore
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being required by your petitionr to maintain their said Grandchild
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according to the direction of the statute in that case made and provided
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do altogether refuse and neglect so to do
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Your Petitionrs & therefore most humbly pray your Honr &
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and Worpps will be pleased to hear them in they prmisses
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and make such Order therein as to your Honr & and Worpps
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Shall seem meet
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And Your Petrs. & shall ever Pray Etc
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