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<p n="467"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx to Wit (No. 13.)</note>
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To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo247">Parish of Cranford</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo248">Middx</rs>
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and to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor<lb></lb>
of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo249">Chadlington</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo250">County of Oxford</rs>
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<p n="468"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n468-1">James Clitherow</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n468-2">John Hawkins</rs>
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</note>
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made by you the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
Said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo251">Parish of Cranford</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
unto us whose Hands and Seals are<lb></lb>
hereunto set, two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace (where-<lb></lb>
of one is of the Quorum (for the County of Middx afore-<lb></lb>
said, that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n468-3">John Smith</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n468-73">Tabitha</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50510_n468-73" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
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his<lb></lb>
Wife<lb></lb>
lately intruded into your said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo252">Parish of Cranford</rs>
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there to inhabit as Parishioner contrary to the Laws relating to<lb></lb>
the Settlement of the Poor, and there likely to become char-<lb></lb>
geable, if not timely prevented: AND WHEREAS, upon due<lb></lb>
Examination and Enquiry made into the Premises, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n468-5">John Smith</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50510_n468-5" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
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it appears unto Us, and we accordingly adjudge, that the Said <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n468-6">John Smith</rs>
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& Jabitha his Wife are<lb></lb>
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like to become chargeable unto the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo253">Parish of Cranford</rs>
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and that the last legal Place of<lb></lb>
Settlement of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n468-8">John Smith</rs>
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& Jabitha<lb></lb>
his Wife is in the said Parish of <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo254">Chadlington</rs>
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in Oxfordshire</p>
<p n="469"> THESE are therefore in his Majesty's Name, to order and re-<lb></lb>
quire you the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo255">Parish of Cranford</rs>
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aforesaid, that you<lb></lb>
of some of you, do forthwith remove and convey the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n469-1">John<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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& Jabitha his Wife<lb></lb>
from your said Parish of of<lb></lb>
Cranford to the said Parish of of<lb></lb>
Chadlington and them deliver<lb></lb>
to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor there, or Some<lb></lb>
or one of them, together with this our Warrant or Order, or a<lb></lb>
true Copy hereof; whereby they are likewise require, in his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Name, and by Virtue of the Statutes in such Case<lb></lb>
Made, forthwith to receive the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n469-3">John Smith</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
Jabitha his wife<lb></lb>
into their said Parish and provide for them<lb></lb>
as their own Parishioners GIVEN under our Hands and Seals the <lb></lb>
Twenty third Day of March in the Year of our<lb></lb>
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty two</p>
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