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To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
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, to con-
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vey, and to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of
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the
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to receive and obey.
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Middlesex
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to wit.}
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Wm Quarrill
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John Staples
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto Us, whose
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Hands and Seals are hereunto set, being two of His
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Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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, in and for the County of Mid-
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dlesex, (one whereof being of the Quorum) by the Church
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Wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
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St. Mary
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Whitechapel
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, in the said County,
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That
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Grace Conway
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wife of
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Philip Jacob Conway
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who is now in Gaol and her three Male Bastard
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Children Vizt
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John
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Edward
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aged about six years
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John
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aged about three years and
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Philip Jacob
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aged about
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fifteen Months have
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lately come to inhabit in the said Parish of
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St. Mary White-
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, not having gained any legal Settlement there, nor pro-
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duced any Certificate acknowledging them to be settled
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else
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where, a nd are likely to become chargeable to the said Parish:
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We, the said Justices, upon Examination of the Premises upon
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Oath, and other Circumstances, do adjudge the same to be true,
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and do also adjudge the Place of the last legal Settlement of the
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said
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Grace Conway
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to be in the
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in the
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THESE are therefore, in His Majesty's Name, and by Virtue
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of the Statute in that Behalf, to require you, on Sight
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hereof, to remove and convey the said
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Grace Conway
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and her said three Male
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Bastard Children for Nurture
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from and out of your said
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Whitechaple
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, to
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the said
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Parish of St Paul Shadwell
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and them deliver to the Church Wardens and Overseers of the
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Poor there, or to some or one of them, together with this our Or-
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der, or a true Copy hereof, who are hereby required to receive
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and provide for them
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according to Law. Given under our Hands and Seals this
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9th Day of June in the Year
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of our Lord 17 85
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