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Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the
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Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine
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divers felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours committed in the
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in the said County Have at this
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present Session Exhibited their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of
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a Pass Warrant or Order under the Hands and Seals of J. Girdles and W. Blackborow
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Esquries two of his Majesty's
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(whereof one is of the Quorum) bearing
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or thereabouts and also her male Bastard Child namely
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aged 7 Months or
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thereabouts for Nurture were removed and conveyed from the
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Garden ad Ely rents in the parish of Saint Andrew Holbourn to the parish of
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aforesaid as the place of their last legal Settlement Whereby
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the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal
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and what hath been alledged by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers of the
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poor of the said parishes their Counsel and Witnesses in and concerning the premises
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It is ordered that that part of the said Appeal which respects the settlement of Robert
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aged seven Months be ad the same is hereby allowed
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dismissed
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and that part of the said
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Pass Warrant or order of the said two Justices is hereby quashed and It is
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further ordered that that part of the said Appeal which respects the settlement
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of the said
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and her two female Bastard Children be and the
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same is hereby dismissed and that part of the saint pass Warrant or order of the
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said two Justices is hereby confirmed and It is further ordered that the
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do maintain and provide for the said
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and her said
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three Children until they can free themselves from the charge thereof by due
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course of Law.
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