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and her said Child, And it now appearing to this Court by the
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Report of
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Hammend Cross & Richard
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Chamberlayne Esqrs.
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Justices of the Peace
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of this County that
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they have examined into the Matter of the said Petition And
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Are of Opinion that the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor
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of the said
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Parish of Ealing
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be allowed the Sum of two pounds
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and Eight Shillings which they Adjudge a Reasonable Satisfaction
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for the Charges which they have been at in relieving And
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Maintaining the said Ann Derrick Otherwise
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Ann Bromley
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the Vagrant and her Child in the work house of the said Parish
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This Court being of the same Opinion with the said Justices of the
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Peace doth Confirm the said Report And doth by Virtue of the
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Statute in Such Case made Order that Mr.
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John Higgs
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Treasurer
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of
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this County do pay Unto the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor
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of the said
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Parish of Ealing
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or One of them the Sum of two pounds and
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Eight Shillings which this Court doth allow them for the Charges
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above mentioned, And that the Receipt of them or One of them
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with this Order Shall be a Sufficient Discharge to the said
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Treasurer
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for such Payment.
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By Adjournment on Saturday the
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Second Day of March 1750
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Order for Mr. Higgs the
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Treasurer
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to pay £2:6s:6d to
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the Churchwardens and
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Overseers of Poor
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of St.
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Clement Danes for Charges
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on Account of
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Mary Evans
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a Vagrants Lying in of
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a Child in the said Parish.}
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Whereas the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
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St. Clement Danes
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in this County have exhibited their Humble Petition
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unto this Court Setting forth that
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Mary Evans
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(wife of
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David Evan
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's
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gone from her) a Vagrant not having a Legal Settlement in the said
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Parish of St. Clement Danes
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was on the Ninth Day of January last
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found Wandering in Labour in the said Parish and being Carried to
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one of the Parish Nurses of the said Parish was on the Same Day
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delivered of a Female Child, by means where of the Inhabitants of
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the Said Parish were obliged necessarily to Expand the Sum of Two.
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pounds Six Shillings and Sixpence for the lying in and Maintenance of
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the said
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Mary Evans
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& Child, And that it Pursuance of the Statute in
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Such Case made the Petitioners conveyed the said
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Mary Evans
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to one
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of his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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for this County who Examined
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the said
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Mary Evans
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and Committed Her to the
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House of Correction
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Pursuant to the said Statute And the Petitioners prayed this Court to
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Order the Treasurer of this County to reimburse them the Said Sum
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