London
At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for
the City of London at the Guild hall within the said City by
adjournment on Wednesday the fourth day of March 1767 in the
Seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain & Before Sir
Robert Kite< no role >
Knight
Mayor
of the City of London
James Eyre< no role >
Esquire
Recorder
of the
said City Sir
Henry Bankes< no role >
Knight
Richard Peers< no role >
Esquire
Aldermen
of the said City and others their Fellows Justices of our
said Lord the Kings assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the
King within the said City and also to hear and determine divers
Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed within
the said City.
Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
of Saint Swithin
in the City of London
have exhibited their Petition and
Appeal to this Court setting forth that by Virtue of an Order or Pass
Warrant under the Hands and Seals of two of his Majestys Justices of
the Peace for the said City (one being of the Quorum) dated the thirteenth
day of December last past Martha Adderley< no role >
Singlewoman
was
removed from the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldersgate
in the said City
to the said Parish of Saint Swithin
as the place of her last legal
Settlement and that the said Petitioners think themselves aggrieved
by the Judgment of the said two Justices and therefore humbly appealed
to this Court against the same Whereupon at the Request of the
said Petitioners It is Ordered that the Hearing and Determination
of the said Appeal be and the same is hereby adjourned unto the next
General Quarter Session of the Peace to be holden for the said City
at the Guildhall aforesaid on Monday the Twenty seventh day of
April next and that due Notice hereof be given to the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Botolph
Aldersgate London.
By the Court
Hodges