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or either of them to re-
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WHEREAS
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Jane Gossett,
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and Vagabond, (videlicet) by her own Confession and other
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Circumstances
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taken before me upon Oath (which
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Examination is hereunto annexed) it doth appear that her last Legal
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Settlement is in the Parish of
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These are therefore to require you the said Constable and other Officer
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in Bucks
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that being the first Parish in the next Precinct, thro which she
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's in
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Truse to which she is to be sent and to deliver her to
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the Constable or other Officer of such Parish in such next Precinct,
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together with this Pass, and the Duplicate of the Examination of the said
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Vagrant taking his Receipt for the same.
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in Turse there to be delivered to some
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Church-Warden, Chapel-Warden, or Overseer of the Poor of the same
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Parish to be there provided for according to Law. And you the
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said Church-Wardens, Chapel-Wardens, and Overseers of the Poor are here-
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by required to receive the said Person and provide for her as aforesaid.
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Given under my Hand and Seal this 20th Day of December
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in the Year of our Lord 17 58.
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G Wrighte:
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