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<p n="1163">To the Worshipful His Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50773_occ496">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo574">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the peace Assembled</p>
<p n="1164">The Humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50773_n1164-1">Benjamin Gofton<lb></lb>
Nash</rs>
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of the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo575">Mile End New Town</rs>
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in the parish of<lb></lb>
Saint Dunstan Stebonheath otherwise Stepney in the<lb></lb>
the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50773_occ497">Weaver</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1165"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That on or about the Thirty first day of October<del>last</del>
1783<lb></lb>
your Petitioner was served with an Order of Adjudication<lb></lb>
under the Hands and Seals of D. Wilmot and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50773_n1165-2">Chas. Friquet</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Esquires two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo576">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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(one being of the Quorum) Inhabiting in or hear unto<lb></lb>
the Limits of the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo577">Mile End New Town</rs>
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in the parish of<lb></lb>
Saint Dunstan Stebonheath otherwise Stepney in the said<lb></lb>
County Dated the said thirty first day of October<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
1783<lb></lb>
Stating that the said two Justices had met together on the<lb></lb>
day last mentioned and heard the Complaint of the<lb></lb>
Overseers of the poor of the said Hamlet concerning a Female<lb></lb>
Bastard Child Setting forth That the said Him all Bastard<lb></lb>
Child was Born in the said Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo578">Mile End New Town</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50773_n1165-3">Margaret Hocket</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50773_occ498">Single woman</rs>
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on the second<lb></lb>
day of September now last And who hath been Baptized<lb></lb>
by the name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50773_n1165-4">Sarah Ann</rs>
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And that the said Female Bastard<lb></lb>
Child is now living and hath been and now is Chargeable to the<lb></lb>
said Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo579">Mile End New Town</rs>
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and is likely so to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
continue And Also that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50773_n1165-5">Margaret Hockett</rs>
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hath in her<lb></lb>
Examination taken upon Oath Charged the said Benjamin Gofton Nash<lb></lb>
with having begotten the said Child on her Body</p>
<p n="1166">That the said Benjamin Gofton Nash having been duly Summoned<lb></lb>
to Appear before the said two Justices on the Day and Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid at the Publick Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo580">Worship Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo581">Shoreditch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to Answer the said Complaint And to show Cause why he should<lb></lb>
not be Adjudged the putative Father of the said Female Bastard<lb></lb>
Child And why upon the Complaint of the Overseers of the poor of<lb></lb>
the said Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo582">Mile End New Town</rs>
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as aforesaid An Order<lb></lb>
should not be made upon him for the relief and Indemnity of <lb></lb>
the said Hamlet touching the premises And the said Benjamin<lb></lb>
Gofton Nash Appearing before the said two Justices And not<lb></lb>
shewing any Cause to the contrary they the said two Justices<lb></lb>
Did upon the Examination of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50773_n1166-3">Margaret Hockett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
upon Oath before them and other Circumstances find<lb></lb>
and Adjudge the said Complaint to be true And that<lb></lb>
the said Female Bastard Child was born in the<lb></lb>
said Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50773_geo583">Mile End New Town</rs>
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of the Body of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50773_n1166-4">Margaret Hockett</rs>
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as aforesaid and hath<lb></lb>
been and now is Chargeable to the said Hamlet<lb></lb>
of</p>
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