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<p n="116">To the Right Honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15065_n116-1">Thomas Rawlinson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15065_occ46">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15065_occ47">Lord<lb></lb>
Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo116">City of London</rs>
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and the Rest of his Majesties Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace for at the General Quarter Sessions at the Peace held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo117">Guildhall</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo118">City of London</rs>
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Assembled</p>
<p n="117">The Humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15065_n117-1">John Horsford</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo119">Parish<lb></lb>
of Saint George</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo120">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15065_occ48">Surgeon</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15065_occ49">Apothecary</rs>
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<p n="118"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That on the twenty second day of October 1753 one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15065_n118-1">Ann Coulson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15065_occ50">Spinster</rs>
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was upon a proper and Legal Examination taken before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15065_n118-2">Boulton Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15065_occ51">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15065_occ52">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo121">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Passed as a Vagabond from the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo122">Parish of Saint George</rs>
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to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo123">Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Nicholas</rs>
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in the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo124">Newcastle upon Tyne</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo125">County of Northumberland</rs>
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being his Legal Settlement</p>
<p n="119">That in Pursuance of Such Pass she was Conveyed to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo126">Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo127">London</rs>
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in her way to her said Settlement and Delivered to one<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15065_occ53">Constable</rs>
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of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15065_geo128">Parish of Aldgate</rs>
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who thereupon Gave<lb></lb>
a Receipt for her</p>
<p n="120">That Notwithstanding she was so Delivered to him together with her Pass<lb></lb>
and Duplicate of Examination he has Totally Refused to Obey the Same and was<lb></lb>
Counter and as your Petitioner Beleives therein by the Churchwarden or some<lb></lb>
other officer of the said Parish and she Still Continues in the said Parish the he had<lb></lb>
Repealed Orders from Alderman Cockayne to Obey the said Pass</p>
<p n="121">That about three Months after such Pass she was Delivered of a Male<lb></lb>
Bastard Child which is now as your Petitioner beleives Chargeable to the said<lb></lb>
Parish</p>
<p n="122">That Since her Delivery she has made Oath Before two of his Majesties<lb></lb>
Justices of the peace for the said city that your Petitioner is the Father of the said<lb></lb>
Bastard who have thereupon Ordered your petitioner to pay three Pounds to the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish being so much Expended by<lb></lb>
them in Maintaining the said Bastard Child and also two shillings and Six pence<lb></lb>
P Week Weekly for its Future Maintenance</p>
<p n="123">That your Petitioner being Conscious of his not ever having any criminal<lb></lb>
Knowledge of the said Ann Coulson thinks himself Greatly Aggreived by the said Order<lb></lb>
And your Petitioners in Informed that the said Constable by not Obeying the said Pass<lb></lb>
has Acted Alegally and Contray to the Acts of Parliament and that thereby your<lb></lb>
Petitioner is Discharged the Parish having by their own Act Drew the Charge<lb></lb>
upon themselves</p>
<p n="124">Your Petitioner therefore Most Humbly Hopes an<lb></lb>
prays that you would please to Quash the said Order or<lb></lb>
Adjudication touching the Maintenance of the said Bastard<lb></lb>
Child and further Releive your petitioner as you shall think<lb></lb>
proper And He as in Duty Bound will ever Pray Etc.</p>
<p n="125"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15065_n125-1">John Horsford</rs>
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