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To The Worship full his Majesty's
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The humble Petition of
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Robert Muggeridge
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That by an Order of
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William Timbrell
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Esquires two of his
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Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the City and Liberty of
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Westminster
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made the
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third Day of November in the third Year of his present Majesty's Reign reciting that
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whereas
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it had appeared to the said Justices as well upon Complaint of the
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Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
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Saint George Hanover Square
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in the said Liberty as upon the Oath of one
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Phillis Greenhouse
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that
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she the said Phillis Greenhouse on the seventeenth Day of August then last past
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was delivered of a Female Bastard Child at the lying Inn Hospital in the said
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Parish and that your Petitioner did beget the said Bastard Child and therefore the
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said Justices adjudged your Petitioner to be the reputed Father of the said Bastard
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Child And ordered that your Petitioner upon Notice of that Order should forthwith
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pay to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of
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Saint George
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the Sum of two Pounds and eleven Shillings for and towards the
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Maintenance of the said Bastard Child to that time and Otherwise the Sum of two Shillings
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and six Pence weekly from that Time so long as the said Bastard Child should be
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chargeable to the said Parish.
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That your Petitioner apprehends himself greatly aggrieved by the said
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Order:
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Your Petitioner therefore humby prays
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Your Worships may be pleased to grant unto your
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Petitioner such Relief in the Premises as to your
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Worships shall seem meet
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And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc
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