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To the Rl. Worpll: his Maties, Justices of the Peace for the County of Midlx Assembled in
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Quarter Sessions.
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The humble Peticon and Appeale of
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Lewis Evans
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of the
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parish of St. Gyles in the
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in the Said County
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Victualler
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Sheweth
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Thats by an Order Dated the
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Sixteenth day of November last
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Under the hand
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and Seales of
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John Milner
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William Prestley
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. two of his Maties,
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Justices
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for the Said County of Midlx (Quorum Vnus) Your Peticoner is
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to be the reputed Father of a Male Bastard Childs Corne in the Said parish of
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Gyles in the fields on the body of
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Ann Smith
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Singlewoman
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in the Month of
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February last was Seven Years, which is baptized
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William
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and now become
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chargeable to the Said parish
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That there by your Peticoner is ordered to pay to the Churchwardens and
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Overseers of the poors of the Said parish of St. Gyles in the fields the Sume of tenn
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Shillings and Six poun by them expended comerning the Said Bastard Childs, and
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after wortly and every weeks from themsforth Soo long as the Said Child Shall
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romanie chargeable to the Said parish the Sume of two Shillings and Six pence
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of lawfull Money of Grant Brittanie, And that your Peticoner Shall of and
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from the charge of the Said Bastard Childs a hall times here after Save harmless
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and indemnifie the Said parish By which Order of the Said two Justices
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Yom Peticoner finds himself agrieved, humbly Appeals again Sd the Same
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to this Worshipfull County
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Your Peticoner therefore and in regard of the great lenght of time
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Since the birth of the Said Child which was baptized the
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24th. of August
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1707
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. being Nine years and fewer Months, and Severall Matteriall
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Wittness for and on the behalfe of Gom Peticoner being out of the way
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So that he Cannot have them in Court this prsent Sessions, he humbly prays
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your Worships' to Respity order the heaving of this appeale to the first
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day of the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be heldon for this County
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or otherwise ye love him in the premisses as to your worships shall Seem
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meet,
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And your Peticoner Shall ever pray ye.
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