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<p n="213">To the Rl. Worpll: his Maties, Justices of the Peace for the County of Midlx Assembled in<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions.</p>
<p n="214">The humble Peticon and Appeale of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50161_n214-1">Lewis Evans</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50161_geo35">parish of St. Gyles in the<lb></lb>
fields</rs>
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in the Said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50161_occ47">Victualler</rs>
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</p>
<p n="215"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
Thats by an Order Dated the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50161_date27">Sixteenth day of November last</rs>
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Under the hand<lb></lb>
and Seales of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50161_n215-1">John Milner</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50161_n215-3">William Prestley</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50161_n215-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50161_occ48">Esqr</rs>
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. two of his Maties, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50161_occ49">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the Said County of Midlx (Quorum Vnus) Your Peticoner is<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
to be the reputed Father of a Male Bastard Childs Corne in the Said parish of<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Gyles in the fields on the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50161_n215-2">Ann Smith</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50161_n215-2" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50161_occ50">Singlewoman</rs>
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in the Month of<lb></lb>
February last was Seven Years, which is baptized <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50161_n215-4">William </rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50161_n215-4" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50161_n215-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and now become<lb></lb>
chargeable to the Said parish</p>
<p n="216">That there by your Peticoner is ordered to pay to the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the poors of the Said parish of St. Gyles in the fields the Sume of tenn<lb></lb>
Shillings and Six poun by them expended comerning the Said Bastard Childs, and<lb></lb>
after wortly and every weeks from themsforth Soo long as the Said Child Shall<lb></lb>
romanie chargeable to the Said parish the Sume of two Shillings and Six pence<lb></lb>
of lawfull Money of Grant Brittanie, And that your Peticoner Shall of and<lb></lb>
from the charge of the Said Bastard Childs a hall times here after Save harmless<lb></lb>
and indemnifie the Said parish By which Order of the Said two Justices<lb></lb>
Yom Peticoner finds himself agrieved, humbly Appeals again Sd the Same<lb></lb>
to this Worshipfull County</p>
<p n="217">Your Peticoner therefore and in regard of the great lenght of time<lb></lb>
Since the birth of the Said Child which was baptized the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50161_date28">24th. of August<lb></lb>
1707</rs>
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. being Nine years and fewer Months, and Severall Matteriall<lb></lb>
Wittness for and on the behalfe of Gom Peticoner being out of the way<lb></lb>
So that he Cannot have them in Court this prsent Sessions, he humbly prays<lb></lb>
your Worships' to Respity order the heaving of this appeale to the first<lb></lb>
day of the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be heldon for this County<lb></lb>
or otherwise ye love him in the premisses as to your worships shall Seem<lb></lb>
meet,</p>
<p n="218">And your Peticoner Shall ever pray ye.</p>
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