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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord<lb></lb>
the King holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50680_geo293">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at Hicks Hall<lb></lb>
in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50680_geo294">John Street</rs>
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by adjournment on Thursday the thirtieth<lb></lb>
day of April in the eighteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc Before Sir<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n585-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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Knight the Reverend Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n585-2">George Booth</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50680_occ103">Baronet</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n585-3">David Wilmot</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n585-4">John Barnfather</rs>
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Esquires and others their<lb></lb>
Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the<lb></lb>
Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine<lb></lb>
divers felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours committed in the<lb></lb>
same</p>
<p n="586">Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50680_geo295">Saint George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50680_geo296">Westminster</rs>
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in the said County Have at this<lb></lb>
present Session Exhibited their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of<lb></lb>
a Pass Warrant or Order under the Hands and Seals of J. Girdles and W. Blackborow<lb></lb>
Esquries two of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50680_occ104">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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(whereof one is of the Quorum) bearing <lb></lb>
date the 28th day of February 1778 <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n586-1">Mary Meredith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50680_occ105">Singlewoman</rs>
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and two female<lb></lb>
Bastard Children Namely <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n586-4">Sarah</rs>
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aged 9 years or thereabouts and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n586-5">Jane</rs>
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aged 7 Years<lb></lb>
or thereabouts and also her male Bastard Child namely <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n586-6">Robert</rs>
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aged 7 Months or<lb></lb>
thereabouts for Nurture were removed and conveyed from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50680_geo297">Liberty of Saffron Hall</rs>
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Hall on<lb></lb>
Garden ad Ely rents in the parish of Saint Andrew Holbourn to the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50680_geo298">Saint<lb></lb>
George Hanover Square</rs>
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aforesaid as the place of their last legal Settlement Whereby<lb></lb>
the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal<lb></lb>
and what hath been alledged by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers of the<lb></lb>
poor of the said parishes their Counsel and Witnesses in and concerning the premises<lb></lb>
It is ordered that that part of the said Appeal which respects the settlement of Robert<lb></lb>
aged seven Months be ad the same is hereby allowed<del>dismissed</del>
and that part of the said<lb></lb>
Pass Warrant or order of the said two Justices is hereby quashed and It is<lb></lb>
further ordered that that part of the said Appeal which respects the settlement<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n586-2">Mary Meredith</rs>
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and her two female Bastard Children be and the<lb></lb>
same is hereby dismissed and that part of the saint pass Warrant or order of the<lb></lb>
said two Justices is hereby confirmed and It is further ordered that the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50680_geo299">Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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do maintain and provide for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50680_n586-3">Mary Meredith</rs>
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and her said<lb></lb>
three Children until they can free themselves from the charge thereof by due<lb></lb>
course of Law.</p>
<p n="587">By the Court</p>
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