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Whereas Complaint hath been made by you the Church-wardens
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unto us whole Hands
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Mary
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their son aged about fours months
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able, if not timely pre
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Mary the wife of
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son are
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& Mary his wife
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there son is in the said
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These are therefore in his Majesty's Name, to order and require you
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the said Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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Their son from your said
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and them deliver
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to the Church-wardens and Overfeers 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 required in his Majesty's
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Name, and by Virtue of the Statutes in such Case made, forthwith to
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receive the said, Mary the wife of
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Thomas Gurney
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Thomas Gurney
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their son
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into their said Parish of Tavesham and provide for them their
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as their own Parishioners When under our Hands and Seals, the
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Twenty second Day of August
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in the Year of our
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Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and thirty Seven
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