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By Adjournment on Thursday the
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12th.
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day of September 1754
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Upon the humble petition of the Churchwardens
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and Overseers of the poor of the
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in the County of Middx exhibited unto this
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Court Setting forth that on or about the twenty
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first day of July last one
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Elizabeth
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Thomas Wakefield
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was found wanding and
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begging in the said parish and being sent to
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the
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there was delievered of a
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Female Child baptized by the Name of Ann
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whereby she and her said Child became charge
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able to the said parish And that the Petrs.
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did detain the said Woman in their work
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house untill the twelfth day of August
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last when they Conveyed her before Merry
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Teshmaker Esqr. one of It is Majesty's
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Justices of the peace for this County who upon
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Examination of the said Vagrant did by a
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pass under his Hand and Seal order and direct
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her to be Conveyed to the Parish of Jarro in the
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being the place of her
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last legal Settlement And the Petrs. therefore
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praying that this Court would be pleased to
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Order the Treasurer of this County to pay the
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Petrs. such a Sum of money as this Court
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shall adjudge a Reasonable Satisfaction for
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the charges the said parish has been put unto
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on Account of the lying in of the said Elizth
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Wakefield This Court upon hearing of what
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was alledged concerning the premisses being
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Satisfied that the Substance of the said
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peticon is here doth Order that Mr.
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John
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Treasurer of this County do pay unto
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the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor
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of the said
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parish of Enfield
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on one of them the
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Sum of One Pound and fourteen Shillings
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of lawfull money of Great Britain which
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this Court doth adjudge a reasonable Satisfied
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for the charges the said parish has been put
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