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<p n="443">To the right honourable the Lord Mayor and the Rest of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of London in their<lb></lb>
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Guildhall in<lb></lb>
and for the said City assembled</p>
<p n="444">The humble Petition and appeal of the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15076_geo327">Eltham</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15076_geo328">Kent</rs>
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<p n="445"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by an Order under the Hands and Seals of your Lordship<lb></lb>
and Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15076_n445-1">Thomas Rawlinson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15076_occ215">Knight</rs>
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two of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15076_occ216">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15076_geo329">City of London</rs>
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one of whom is<lb></lb>
of the Quorum bearing Date the first Day of October instant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15076_n445-3">Elizabeth Scofield</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15076_occ217">widow</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15076_n445-4">Edward Scofield</rs>
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deceased was<lb></lb>
removed from the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15076_geo330">Saint Peter le Poor in Broad Street</rs>
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London to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15076_geo331">Eltham</rs>
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in Kent as the Place of<lb></lb>
her last legal Settlement by which Order your Petitioners<lb></lb>
apprehand themselves to be aggrieved</p>
<p n="446">Your Petitioners therefore humbly appeal to this<lb></lb>
honorable Court and pray that the Churchwardens<lb></lb>
and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Peter le Poor London and all Parties concerned may<lb></lb>
attend the said Court some day in this present Session<lb></lb>
to hear and abide the Judgement and Determination<lb></lb>
of the said Court touching the said appeal And that<lb></lb>
your Petitioners may have such Relief in the<lb></lb>
Promises as to the said Court shall seem meet</p>
<p n="447">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc</p>
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