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<p n="290">To the Worshipful his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50606_occ71">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50606_geo265">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Sessions of the Peace<lb></lb>
Assembled</p>
<p n="291">The humble petition and Appeal of the Churchwardens and Overseers of<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50606_geo266">shenley</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
in the County of Hertford.</p>
<p n="292"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by an outer under the Hands and Seals of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-1">Stephen Clarke</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-2">Bartholomew Hammond</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Esqrs. Two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50606_occ72">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for there<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50606_geo267">County of Middlesex</rs>
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(one whereof being of the Quorum) bearing Late the Tenth<lb></lb>
Day of December last past <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-48">Ann Dances</rs>
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Widow of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-3">John Dances</rs>
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deceased together<lb></lb>
with her Five Children namely, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-49">Mary</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-49" type="surname" value="Dances"></interp>
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aged Eleven years, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-28">Rebecca</rs>
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Aged Six Years<lb></lb>
and upwards <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-18">John</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-18" type="surname" value="Dances"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-18" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Aged near Five Years <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-78">Francis</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-78" type="given" value="Francis"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-78" type="surname" value="Dances"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-78" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Aged Two Years and upwards<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-38">Joseph</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-38" type="surname" value="Dances"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50606_n292-38" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
Aged Nine Months were removed from the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50606_geo268">Saint Pancrass</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50606_geo269">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to the sd. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50606_geo270">Parish of Shenley</rs>
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by the Disruption of his <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50606_geo271">parish of Shenley Hill</rs>
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in the said County of<lb></lb>
Hertford as the last legal Settlement of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50606_n292-4">Ann Dancer</rs>
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and of her said Five<lb></lb>
Children Mary Rebecca, John Francis and Joseph whereby your Petitioners <lb></lb>
conceive themselves to be aggrieved and against the said Order do appeal</p>
<p n="293">Your Petitioners thereof one humbly Pray, That a<lb></lb>
Day may be appointed the next Sessions to hear<lb></lb>
and determine the Matter touching the said<lb></lb>
Appeal</p>
<p n="294">And your Petitioners shall ever Pray</p>
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