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<p n="243">To the Worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50781_occ127">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo472">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at Hicks Hall<obscured></obscured>
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Session of the Peace Assembled.</p>
<p n="244">The Humble Petition and appeal of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50781_n244-1">Elizabeth Magson</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50781_occ128">Widow</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50781_n244-2">William Magson</rs>
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Deceased.</p>
<p n="245"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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Your Petitioners Husband died in Ann in the latter and of the year 1774</p>
<p n="246">That your Petitioner has Lodgd with one Mrs. Hopp of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo473">Parish of Saint George Middlesex</rs>
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for upwards of three years and has always<lb></lb>
done her best Endeavours to get a Livelyhood but being deprived of her Husbands<lb></lb>
Assistance and being in great distress our Petitioner Applyed to the<lb></lb>
Officers of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo474">Parish of Saint George</rs>
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for relief (her Husband having inform<obscured></obscured>
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her) that he was born there but your Petitioner was refus'd<obscured></obscured>
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your Petitioner Applyed to the Lord Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo475">City of London</rs>
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who<obscured></obscured>
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your Petitioner to the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo476">Parish of Saint George</rs>
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where your Petitioner<lb></lb>
Continued about three Months in the work house of the said Parish and<lb></lb>
then finding that she could get Work to do went out of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo477">Workhouse</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
her own Account your Petitioner was soon after taken Ill and Apply'd again<lb></lb>
to one of the Overseers of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo478">Parish of Saint George</rs>
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who sent her into the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo479">workhouse</rs>
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that your Petitioner was then examined by the Committe<lb></lb>
of the said Parish respecting her last legal Settlement when she inform'd<lb></lb>
them that her Husband was born in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo480">Parish of Saint George</rs>
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and that<lb></lb>
he never did any other Act or Deed to gain a Subsequent Settlement unless<lb></lb>
by her Renting a House at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo481">Portsmouth</rs>
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at the yearly Rent of £8 PAnnum for<lb></lb>
which she paid some Taxes but what Tax she knew not</p>
<p n="247">That the Examination of your Petitioner concern<lb></lb>
her Settlement as aforesaid was put down in Writing but that she on<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
reading same declared that she never heard of her Husbands Father<lb></lb>
Mother ever keeping a <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50781_geo482">House in Shadwell</rs>
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but inform'd them tha<obscured></obscured>
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