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<p n="228"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50478_geo176">Westminster</rs>
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, To wit. </note>
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To the Constable, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50478_occ83">Headborough</rs>
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, Tythingman, and other<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50478_occ84">Officer of the Peace</rs>
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of the Parish of St. Margaret<lb></lb>
in the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50478_geo177">Westminster</rs>
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, to receive and Convey.<lb></lb>
And to the Church-Wardens, Chapel-Wardens, or<lb></lb>
Overseer of the Poor of the Parish, Place or Pre-<lb></lb>
cinct of Manningham in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50478_geo178">york</rs>
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or either of them to re-<lb></lb>
ceive and obey</p>
<p n="229">WHEREAS Elizabeth Rooks (Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50478_n229-2">John Rooks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who has been gone from her upwards of 2½ Years<lb></lb>
was<lb></lb>
apprehended in the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50478_geo179">St. Margaret, Westminster</rs>
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, as a Rogue<lb></lb>
and Vagabond, (videlicet) by her own Consession and other<lb></lb>
Circumstances<lb></lb>
<lb></lb>
and upon Examination of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50478_n229-1">Elizabeth Rooks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before Me upon Oath (which<lb></lb>
Examination is hereunto annexed) it doth appear that her last Legal<lb></lb>
Settlement is in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50478_geo180">Manningham</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the County of York<lb></lb>
<lb></lb>
These are therefore to require you the said Constable and other Officer<lb></lb>
to Convey the said Vagrant to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50478_geo181">Parish of Ridge</rs>
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in Hertford<obscured></obscured>
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that being the first Parish in the next Precinct thro which she<lb></lb>
ought to pass in the direct Way to the said Parish of Manningham<lb></lb>
to which she is to be sent and to deliver her to<lb></lb>
the Constable or other Officer of such Parish in such next Precinct,<lb></lb>
together with this Pass, and the Duplicate of the Examination of the said <lb></lb>
Vagrant taking his Receipt for the same.<lb></lb>
And the said Vagrant to be thence conveyed on in like Manner to the said <lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50478_geo182">Manningham</rs>
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there to be delivered to some<lb></lb>
Church-Warden, Chapel-Warden, or <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50478_occ85">Overseer of the Poor</rs>
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of the same <lb></lb>
Parish to be there provided for according to Law. And you the<lb></lb>
said Church-Wardens, Chapel-Wardens, and Overseers of the Poor are here-<lb></lb>
by required to receive the said Person and provide for her as aforesaid.<lb></lb>
Given under my Hand and Seal this 18th Day of December<lb></lb>
in the Year of our Lord 17 58.</p>
<p n="230">G Wrights.</p>
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