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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King
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holden for the City of London at the Guildhall within the said City
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on Tuesday the
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Twelfth Day of January 1768
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in the Eighth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great
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Britain Etc.
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Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
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have exhibited their Petition
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Ann Hanson
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is a poor old and impotent
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person not able to work or get her Living whereby the is become
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chargeable to the said Parish of Saint Sepulchre and was then in the
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belonging to the said Parish And that the said
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hath a Son named
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James Hanson
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a
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and Builder who keeps
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a great House and Timber Yard on the West Side of
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the Fleet
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Market
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London and another Timber Yard in the said Parish of Saint Sepulchre
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and carries on a very extensive Trade and who is of sufficient Ability
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to maintain his said Mother and therefore prayed that this Court
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would be pleased to make such Order in the Premisses for the Relief of
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the Petitioners as the Court should seem meet Whereupon it is ordered
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that the final Hearing and Determination of the Matters of the said
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Appeal be and the same is hereby adjourned unto the next General
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Quarter Session of the Peace to be holden for the said City at the Guildhall
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aforesaid on Monday the Eleventh Day of April next at Eight of the Clock
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in the Morning and that the said
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have Notice hereof in
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the mean time that he may attend and shew Cause why he should not
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be assessed and charged for the Relief of his said Mother according to the
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Statute in that behalf.
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Served a Copy the 13th Febry 1768
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on Mr. Hanson
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By the Court
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Hodges
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