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Sessions of the Peace assembled
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John Linnell
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William Clerke
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Charles Smith
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That your Petitioners have been for several Years last past
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and during the Years 1786 and 1787 they were Inhabitants of the
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said Parish and as such liable and paid the Rates and Assessments
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made for the relief of the poor of the said Parish
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That in the Year 1786 The Right Honorable Lord Boston and
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Jervase Clerke Jervase
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. Two of the Inhabitants of the said Parish
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were the
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Robert Faulder
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Samuel Hudson
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Merry Wilson
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Alexander Yeate
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Four other Inhabitants of the
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said Parish were
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of the same
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aforesaid.
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That an Account of the Sums assessed collected and received within each
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Ward of the said Parish and all Monies paid and disbursed for the
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relief of the poor of the said Parish in the year 1786 hath been Entered
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examined adjusted and allowed at a meeting of the Vestry of the said Parish
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pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament passed in the 26th.
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year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the 2nd Intitled "an act
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for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of the
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and for cleansing
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the Streets and repairing the
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High Ways
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within the said Parish". That in
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such Account there are divers Sums of Money charged as Payments and
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Disbursements for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish unto Sundry
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Persons therein named and for divers purposes therein mentioned which
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as your Petitioners conceive ought not to have been charged therein the
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same not having been disbursed or paid for the Relief of the Poor of the
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