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<p n="376">To The Worship full his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50517_occ103">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50517_geo281">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
their General Sessions assembled</p>
<p n="377">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50517_n377-1">Robert Muggeridge</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50517_geo282">Banstead</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50517_geo283">Surry</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50517_occ104">Farmer</rs>
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<p n="378"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by an Order of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50517_n378-1">William Timbrell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50517_n378-2">William Mantle</rs>
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Esquires two of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50517_geo284">Westminster</rs>
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made the<lb></lb>
third Day of November in the third Year of his present Majesty's Reign reciting that<lb></lb>
<del>whereas</del>
it had appeared to the said Justices as well upon Complaint of the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50517_geo285">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said Liberty as upon the Oath of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50517_n378-3">Phillis Greenhouse</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50517_occ105">Singlewoman</rs>
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that<lb></lb>
she the said Phillis Greenhouse on the seventeenth Day of August then last past<lb></lb>
was delivered of a Female Bastard Child at the lying Inn Hospital in the said<lb></lb>
Parish and that your Petitioner did beget the said Bastard Child and therefore the<lb></lb>
said Justices adjudged your Petitioner to be the reputed Father of the said Bastard<lb></lb>
Child And ordered that your Petitioner upon Notice of that Order should forthwith<lb></lb>
pay to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50517_geo286">Saint George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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the Sum of two Pounds and eleven Shillings for and towards the<lb></lb>
Maintenance of the said Bastard Child to that time and Otherwise the Sum of two Shillings<lb></lb>
and six Pence weekly from that Time so long as the said Bastard Child should be<lb></lb>
chargeable to the said Parish.</p>
<p n="379">That your Petitioner apprehends himself greatly aggrieved by the said<lb></lb>
Order:</p>
<p n="380">Your Petitioner therefore humby prays<lb></lb>
Your Worships may be pleased to grant unto your<lb></lb>
Petitioner such Relief in the Premises as to your<lb></lb>
Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="381">And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc</p>
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