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<p n="557">To the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ425">Right Honourable</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n557-1">George Heathcote</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ426">Esquire</rs>
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Lord Mayor<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo763">City of London</rs>
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and to the Worshipful the rest of his<lb></lb>
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for the said City and the<lb></lb>
Liberties thereof in the General Quarter Session Assembled.</p>
<p n="558">The Humble Petition and Appeal of the<lb></lb>
Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo764">Parish of Gillingham</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of Dorest</p>
<p n="559"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by Virtue of an order or Pass Warrant under the Hand<lb></lb>
and Seal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n559-1">George Arnold</rs>
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one of the Aldermen and one of<lb></lb>
his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ429">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo765">City of London</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
Liberties thereof bearing date the fifth day of May last past<lb></lb>
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the pretended <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ430">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n559-3">Edward Baling</rs>
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by the Name<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n559-4">Jane Baling</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ431">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n559-5">Edward Baling</rs>
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and their three Children<lb></lb>
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and Jane were conveyed as Regues and Vagabonds<lb></lb>
to the said Overseers of the Poor of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo766">Parish of Gillingham</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo767">County of Dorset</rs>
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alledging the said Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo768">Gillingham</rs>
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to be the Place of their last legal Settlement</p>
<p n="560">That Your Petitioners apprehending<lb></lb>
themselves aggrieved by the said Warrant or<lb></lb>
Order as aforesaid Do appeal to your Lordship<lb></lb>
and Worships Herefrom and Humbly pray that<lb></lb>
you will please to hear them concerning the<lb></lb>
Premisses and that you will releive them<lb></lb>
therein as to your Lordship and Worships shall<lb></lb>
seem meet and agreable to Justice</p>
<p n="561">And Your Petitioners shall ever Etc.</p>
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