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To the Church
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ens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made by you, the Church-
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wardens and Overseers of the said Parish
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ofMenken Hadleyunto us whose Hands and Seals are
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hereunto set, Two of his Majesties
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(Quarum
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aged about Six Months
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lately intrudedthemselvesinto your said Parish of
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there to inhabit asyor.Parishioners. contrary to
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the Laws relating to the Settlement of the Poor, andarethere likely
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and that the last Legal Place of Settlement of the said
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and that She and her said
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Childe (by Law) ought to be sent thither
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W: Smith
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THESE are therefore in his Majesty'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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the Parish ofMonken Hadleyaforesaid, That you, or fome
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&
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her Sd Childefrom your said Parish ofMonken Hadley
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to the said Parish of
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andthemdeliver
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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 in his Majesties
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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 her said Childe
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and provide forthem there
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as their own Parishioner Given under our Hands and Seals, the
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seventeenth,Day ofJanuaryAnno RegniDin uri
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Georgy Regisnunc Magnx Britannix,EtcDuodecimo
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Printed for R. VINGENT and Son, at the Crown and Scopere, ever-against
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Lane, near St. Dunstan's Church in Elect- Street.
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