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<p n="133"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
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At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo171">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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at Hicks Hall in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo172">John Street</rs>
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in the said County (by Adjournment)<lb></lb>
on Thursday the Twentieth day of February in the Twelfth year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain Etc Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n133-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n133-2">William Shakespear</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n133-3">John Spencer Colepeper</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n133-4">Benjamin, Cowley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50616_occ58">Esqr</rs>
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& others their fellows Justices of our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
Assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King within the said County & also<lb></lb>
in the said County</p>
<p n="134">Whereas, the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo173">Parish of<lb></lb>
Shenley</rs>
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in the County of Herts Did at the last General Quarter Session of the<lb></lb>
Peace exhibit their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by an Order under<lb></lb>
the Hands and Seals of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-1">Philip Dyot</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-2">John Cox</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50616_occ59">Esquires</rs>
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two of His<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo174">County of Middlesex</rs>
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(one whereof being<lb></lb>
of the Quorum) bearing Date the 20th. day of December 1771. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-3">Ann Dancer</rs>
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Aged about 40 years Widow of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-4">John Dancer</rs>
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deceased and her Three Children<lb></lb>
by her late Husband (Viz) <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-5">John Thomas</rs>
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Aged five Years, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-20">Fanny</rs>
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Aged Three<lb></lb>
years, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-21">Joseph</rs>
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Aged One Year and Ten Months, were removed from the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo175">Saint Giles in the Fields</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo176">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo177">Parish of Shenley</rs>
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in the County of Hertford as the last legal settlement<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-6">Ann Dancer</rs>
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and of her said Three Children <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50616_n134-7">John Thomas</rs>
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, Fanny<lb></lb>
and Joseph Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves to be aggrieved<lb></lb>
which said Appeal was duly Adjourned unto this day Now upon hearing of<lb></lb>
the said Appeal and what hath been Alledged on either side by the respective<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers their Council and Witnesses in and concerning<lb></lb>
the Promises It is Ordered that the said Pass Warrant or Order of the said<lb></lb>
two Justices be and the same is hereby Confirmed And it is further Ordered<lb></lb>
that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50616_geo178">Parish of Shenley</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the said County of Hertford Do maintain and Provide for the said Poor<lb></lb>
Woman and her Three Children until they can free themselves from the Charge<lb></lb>
thereof by due Course of Law</p>
<p n="135">By the Court.</p>
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