In the Matter of Appeal

St. Mildred Breadstreet London Appellts.
and
St. Michael Crooked Lane London Respondts.

For the Appellants

Appeal prosecuted
Septr. Sessions 1775}

Setsforth that by virtue of in Order or Pass Want. July executed bearing date
the 5th. day of August 1775 Margaret Betten a Singlewoman was removed the
Respondents parish to the Appellants the last Legal Settlement of the said Better being
adjudged to be these By which order the Appellants conceived themselves aggrieved and
therefore Appealed agt. the same and prayed that the same might be vucaled and set aside
And that Appellants night have such other Releife in the pumes as shall seen meet.

The Appeal by Cement of Parties as well as on Account of Multiplicity of [..] has not
yet been heard But it is aged it will be argued this day to avoid further Expence & Alderman thereon

Case

The only Question that can Arise on this Appeal is whether Margt. Betten the Person named
in the Pass Warrant lived in the Appellants parish 12 Months or not

The said Margt. Betten is a Person of Weak Intellects And it is apprehended the person of her
being passed to the Appellants parish was occaioned by her having sworne before the Lord Mayor that
she had lived with Mr Spior in Appellants parish for upwards of 12 Months which Oath we hope & feloise
was not taken from a Wicked principle but occasioned by a defective Memory But we doult not the
following proofes will rectify the defort and the Appellants prayer be granted.

Proofes for the Appellants

Francis Robert< no role > a Taylor says that Margt. Betten< no role > came from Hogdon Workhouse the place
Respondents poor are kept) soon after Easter 1773 and lived with Dept. his Wife from that
time out as a Servt. but an Object of Compassion Dept. Wife knowing her & willing to keep her
till she could hear of a place) till the latter end of Augt. or beginning of Septr. following the
speaks with certainty as to the time having had a Feat for his Journeymen at the three
Jolly Gardiners at Lambeth abt. the latter and of Augt. or beginning of Septr. 1773 and that
Betten quitted his House on the Evening of the Feast and not before Then without to Mr.
[..] pier in Fish street in appellants parish To prove this Call Mr. Francis
Robert

Rose Hamlen< no role > who was a Lodger and also Nurse to Mrs. Spier Corroborates Mr Roberts
Acct. as to the time of Betten coming to Mr. Spiers service and from the following Occasions
she remember that she did not come till abt. a Month or Six Weeks after the Militia were drawn
out at Mr. Spier Door which was a the 20 July 1773 And hat a few days before Mrs. Spier was
delivered of her Child and on which occasion Betten was lived at Dept. recommendition taken
from Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Spiers Child was born the 10 Septr. 1773 To prove this (all Mrs. Rose Hamlen

No: We have proofe of the time of the Militia drawn out the Childs Birth.

Mr. & Mrs. Spier will sweas to the best of their remember that Betten did not live with them
more than 11 Months And we have Better receipt in full for 11 Months Wages child was all that
was pd. by Spier to her And though the Recet bears date 30 Augt. 1774 she was discharged the letter
and of July 1774 but Mr. Spier on Account of his Circumstance, was about [..] at that time or
his return paid her & take her Reced the day he pd. though she had been discharged as afsd.
Mr. & Mrs. Spier have left the parish to become Component Witness To prove this Call for [..] Mr. and Mrs. Spier

It is apprenheded the Respondents will endeavour to prove that Betten whout immediately from their Workhouse
seen after Easter 1773 to Mr. Spiers service should said him of proofe be offered it to decited you would [..]
such Evidence very shirtly thereupon as the foregoing Evidence is directly certiary thereof see the but