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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden forth
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County of Middx at Hickshall in
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in the County aforesaid on Monday the
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third Day of July in the twenty third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
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Second King of great Britain Etc before
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and other their fellows Justices of our said Lord the King
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assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to Near and Determine
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divers Felonys Trespasses and other Misdeeds comitted in the
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in the County Middx have exhibited their humble Petition and Appeal unto this Court
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setting forth That by Virtue of a Pass Warrant or Order under the Stands and Seales
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of
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Thomas Ellys
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Peter Elers
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two of his Majesty's
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for the
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Day of April last past
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Alice Mason
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in the said Order called the Wife of
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(who is absconded & left her) and their three Children (that is to say)
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aged near Six Years
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Hester
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aged about three Years and
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Elizabeth
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an Insant aged about
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three Months were removed & Conveyed from the Parish of Chelsea in the said
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County to the said
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as the Place of their last Legal Settlement
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whereby the Petitioners conceive themselves to be aggreived And that therefore they
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Appeal to this Court against the said Pass Warrant or Order and the Judgment of
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the said two Justices of the Peace, Whereupon at the Request of the Petitioners and for
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several reasons offered to this Court, It is ordered that the Benefit of the said Appeal
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be saved unto the Petitioners, and that the hearing and Determining thereof be
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the same is hereby adjourned untill the Next General Session of the Peace to
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beholden for the said County of Middx, And that the Churchwardens and Overseer
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of the Poor of the said Parish of Chelsea (Upon Notice of this Order) and all Persons
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concerned do attend the Court of the said Next General Session of the Peace to be
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holden for the said County by Adjournment on Tuesday the firth day of September
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next at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same Day to hear & abide the
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Judgement & Determination of the same Court touching the said Appeal,
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By the Court
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Waller
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