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<p n="364"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <del> <obscured></obscured>
if after the<lb></lb>
ward admitted<lb></lb>
the word Tenant<lb></lb>
should not be<lb></lb>
incerted<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
after the word<lb></lb>
Family it should<lb></lb>
not be<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
it in stead of<lb></lb>
the word Family<lb></lb>
it should not<lb></lb>
be his said wife<lb></lb>
& children</del>
</note>
<lb></lb>
the matter of the said appeal was further adjourned by this Count untill<lb></lb>
this present Friday the Ninth day of December instant, Now upon hearing<lb></lb>
of the aforesaid appeal against the said Order of removal and of what<lb></lb>
was alledged by Mr. Theed of Councel for the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the poor of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo319">Parish of St. Giles in the fields</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
also by Mr. Serjeant Hayward of Councel for the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the poor of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo320">parish of Castle Hedingham</rs>
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It<lb></lb>
appeareth to this Court that the Churchwardens & Overseers of the<lb></lb>
poor of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo321">parish of Castle Hedingham</rs>
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by Certificate under their<lb></lb>
hands & seals bearing date the eighteenth day of February in the year<lb></lb>
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty nine attested<lb></lb>
by two Witnesses and duly allowed & confirmed by two of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the peace for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo322">County of Essex</rs>
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did own and<lb></lb>
acknowledge the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50327_n364-1">Jonathan Ward</rs>
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and his said wife & children<lb></lb>
to be Inhabitants legally settled in their said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo323">parish of Castle<lb></lb>
Hedingham</rs>
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, And that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven<lb></lb>
hundred and thirty the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50327_n364-2">Jonathan Ward</rs>
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being a Stone Mason's<lb></lb>
Labourer went about the Country with his Family and worked at<lb></lb>
several places at<del>great way distant</del>
a distance from the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo324">parish of Castle<lb></lb>
Hedingham</rs>
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, and hearing that his uncle <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50327_n364-3">John ward</rs>
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was dead he went over to<lb></lb>
withersfield in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo325">County of Suffolk</rs>
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, and found that two Copy hold<lb></lb>
to Hages in withersfield holden of the manner of withersfield<obscured></obscured>
had come to him by descent from his Sd.<lb></lb>
uncle, And that about may in the said year one thousand seven<lb></lb>
hundred and thirty the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50327_n364-4">Jonathan Ward</rs>
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was admitted<lb></lb>
Tenant to the aforesaid Cottages to held to him<obscured></obscured>
according to the Custom of the said ment And that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50327_n364-5">Jonathan Ward</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
sending for his said<del>Family</del>
Wife & Children he and they lodged for some time<lb></lb>
in the Town of withersfield, aforesaid, And after they had gott some<lb></lb>
conveniencys the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50327_n364-6">Jonathan Ward</rs>
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and his said<del>Family</del>
Waits & Children<lb></lb>
Went and resided in one of the said Cottages about Nine Months, And<lb></lb>
that in about three<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
weeks after he had so fixed his Family in one<lb></lb>
of the said Cottages he went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo326">Cambridge</rs>
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to get work where he lodged<lb></lb>
(it being about twelve miles distant from<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo327">Withersfield</rs>
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aforesaid)<lb></lb>
but weekly or very frequently came home to his Family on the Saturday<lb></lb>
and returned on Monday morning, But when the work was<lb></lb>
finished at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo328">Cambridge</rs>
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he returned to withersfield aforesaid to his<lb></lb>
Family, and stay'd with them about ten days, and then went to get<lb></lb>
work at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo329">Chelmsford</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo330">County of Essex</rs>
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aforesaid, which being at a<lb></lb>
great distance from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50327_geo331">Withersfield</rs>
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aforesaid he sent for his Family and<lb></lb>
hath not since resided in withersfield aforesaid, And that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50327_n364-7">Jonathan ward</rs>
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after Nine Month's residence in one of the said Cottages<lb></lb>
as above stated sold both the said Cottages for six guineas with the<lb></lb>
in cumbrance of the Fine and fees of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
his Admission, whereupon and on</p>
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