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To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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; and to the Church-Wardens and Over-
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto
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Us, two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace,
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acting in and for the
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and Overseers of the Poor of the said
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John Platt
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Frances
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his Wife and
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their Four Children Namely
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Aged Ten Years
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Aged Eight years
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Rebecca
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Aged six years and
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Vurley
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Aged one years (the two First Named Children
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having gained no Settlement in their own Right) have
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lately intruded, and
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came into the said
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,
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and are become Chargeable to the same:
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We the said Justices, upon Examination of the Premi-
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ses upon Oath, and other Circumstances, do adjudge
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the same to be true, and do also adjudge the Place of
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the last legal Settlement of the said
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his said Wife and their said Four Children
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to be in the
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within the Liberty of
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in the
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THESE are therefore, in his Majesty's Name,
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to require you, the said Church-Wardens and
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Overseers of the Poor of the
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and their said
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Four Children
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from and out of your said
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to the said
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and them deliver unto the Church-Wardens, and
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Overseers of the Poor there, or to some, or one of them,
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together with this our Order, or a true Copy hereof,
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who are hereby required to receive and provide for
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them according to Law. Given under our Hands
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and Seals this Sixth Day of July 1784
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