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<p n="8"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo19">Middlesex</rs>
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To the Constable of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo20">St. Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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, in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo21">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, or the Headborough there: And also<lb></lb>
to the Contractor employed for the passing and conveying of<lb></lb>
Rogues and Vagabonds within the said County; and to all<lb></lb>
Constables and other Officers whom it may concern, to receive<lb></lb>
and convey; and to the Church-wardens, Chapel-wardens, or<lb></lb>
Overseers of the Poor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo22">Parish of Falmouth</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo23">County of Cornwall</rs>
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or either of them to receive and obey.</p>
<p n="9">WHEREAS <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50774_n9-1">James Downing</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50774_occ6">Mariner</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
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apprehended in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo24">St. Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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, aforesaid as a Vagabond<lb></lb>
Videlicit Wandering abroad & begging there<lb></lb>
together with his Wife <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50774_n9-21">Mary </rs>
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& Child <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50774_n9-2">Elizabeth</rs>
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aged four Yeare<lb></lb>
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and upon Examination of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50774_n9-3">James Downing</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me in Writing, and upon Oath; which Examination is hereunto annexed<lb></lb>
it doth appear that his last legal Settlement is at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo25">Falmouth</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo26">County of<lb></lb>
Cornwall</rs>
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aforesaid: These are therefore to require you the said<lb></lb>
Constable, or other Officer to convey the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50774_n9-4">James Downing</rs>
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& his said Wife<lb></lb>
& Child to the House of Correction at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo27">Clerkenwell</rs>
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, from<lb></lb>
whence the said Contractor is to convey them to the Parish of<lb></lb>
that being the first Parish in the next<lb></lb>
Precinct, through which they ought to pass in the direct Way to the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo28">Parish<lb></lb>
of Falmouth</rs>
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to which Parish they are<lb></lb>
to be sent, and to deliver them to the Constable, or other Officer of such Parish<lb></lb>
in such next Precinct, together with this Pass, and the Duplicate of the Examination<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50774_n9-5">James Downing</rs>
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taking his Receipt for the same: And<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50774_n9-6">James Downing</rs>
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& his sd Wife & Child are to be thence<lb></lb>
conveyed on in the like Manner to the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50774_geo29">Parish of Falmouth</rs>
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there to be delivered to some Church-warden, Chapel-warden, or Overseer of the<lb></lb>
Poor of the same Parish, to be there provided for according to Law. And you the<lb></lb>
said Church-warden, Chapel-warden, or Overseer of the Poor are hereby required<lb></lb>
to receive the said Person and provide for them as aforesaid. Given under my<lb></lb>
Hand and Seal this Nineteenth Day of November1783</p>
<p n="10">J Hawley</p>
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