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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made by you unto us whose
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Hands and Seals are hereunto settwo of hisMajesties
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deced, and their
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there to inhabit asParishioners contrary to
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the Laws relating to the Settlement of the Poor, andarethere likely
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to become Chargeable, if not timely prevented. And Whereas up
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on due Examination and Enquiry made into the Premissesas also upon
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T: Woodcock
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THESE are therefore inhisMajesty's Name to Order and
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Require you the said Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of
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St. James Westmraforesaid, That you, or some of you do forth-
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to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor there, or some or
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one of them, together with this our Warrant or Order or a true
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Copy hereof, whereby they are likewise requir'd inhisMajesties
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Name, and by Virtue of the Statutes in such Case made, forthwith
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to receive the said
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, and the said two Children
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into their saidParish and Careand provide forthem
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as their own Parishioners. Given under our Hands and Seals, the
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twenty first Day of June Anno Regni Dom Nre
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Georgy nunc Magnae Britanniae, Etc. Regis
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Annoq; Dom. 1723.
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Printed for R. VINCENT and Son, at the Crown and Scopire, over-against
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Lane, near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street.
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