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By Adjornment on Thursday the 18th. of April 1751.
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Order for casing in to
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Consideration Whether any
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Licences shall be Granted
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to alehouse Keepers and
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Victuallers
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who have
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skittle Grounds}
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It is Ordered That on the County Day of the next General Sessions
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of the Peace to be holden for this County It be taken into Consideration
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Whether any Lycences Shall be Granted to Alehousekeepers and Bichallers
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who have Skittle Grounds, for the selling of Beer, Ale and other
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Liquors by Retail.
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At the Quarter session by Adjornment on Tuesday the
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21st. of May 1751
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Order for Mr. Higgs the
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to pay 40s: to the
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Churchwardens & Overseers
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of the Poor of
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for the Charges of him
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Fox a Vagrants Lying in of
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a Child in the
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of the
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Upon the Humble Petition of the Churchwardens and Overseers of
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the Poor of the
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in this County exhibited not
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this Court selling forth That on or about the fourteenth Day of March
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last as One
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Ann Fox
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wife of Pete Fox was wandring and begging in
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the said Parish she was delivered of a Female Child baptized
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Jane White
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Dyed about ten Days after her Birth, Whereby she And her said Child
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became Chargeable to the said Parish, And that the Petitioners did detain
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the said Woman in Custody untill the Ninth Day of April now last
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when the Petrs. Conveyed her before
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one of his
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Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County who Examined her and
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Committed her to the
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House of Correction
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at
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Clerkenwell
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and the
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Petitioners therefore Prayed that this Court will be pleased to order
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the
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of this County to pay the Petitioners such a sum of
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money as this Court shall Adjudge a Reasonable Satisfaction for the
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Charges the said Parish hath been put unto On Account of the said
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Ann Fox
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and her said Child, And it appearing unto this Court upon,
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Oath of
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Charles Haughton
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of the Workhoue belonging to the said
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Parish in which
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the said
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was delivered of the said
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Child, that the Contents of the said Petition are true and that
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the Common
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charge made for the Months Lying in of any Woman in the said
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is forty shillings, And that According to
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the Common
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Calculation of the
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charge of maintaining the Poor in the said
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Earls Person
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stands the said Parish in one and twenty pence per week This Court
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is of opinion that the sum of forty shillings be allowed to the Petitioners
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for the Lying in of the said
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of the said Child in the said
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which this Court doth Adjudge a Reasonable satisfaction to the Petitioners
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On Account of the Premisses, and doth therefore by virtue of the statute
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in such case made order that Mr.
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John Higgs
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Treasurer
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of this
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County do pay unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor
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of the said
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Parish of St. Giles in the Fields
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or one of them the said
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sum of forth shillings which this Court doth Adjudge to be
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