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<p n="239">By Adjournment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55603_date47">12th.<lb></lb>
day of September 1754</rs>
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<p n="240">Upon the humble petition of the Churchwardens<lb></lb>
and Overseers of the poor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo382">parish of Enfield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the County of Middx exhibited unto this<lb></lb>
Court Setting forth that on or about the twenty<lb></lb>
first day of July last one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55603_n240-1">Elizabeth</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55603_n240-1" type="surname" value="Wakefield"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55603_n240-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ329">wife</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55603_n240-2">Thomas Wakefield</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55603_n240-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
was found wanding and<lb></lb>
begging in the said parish and being sent to<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo383">Workhouse</rs>
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there was delievered of a<lb></lb>
Female Child baptized by the Name of Ann<lb></lb>
whereby she and her said Child became charge<lb></lb>
able to the said parish And that the Petrs.<lb></lb>
did detain the said Woman in their work<lb></lb>
house untill the twelfth day of August<lb></lb>
last when they Conveyed her before Merry<lb></lb>
Teshmaker Esqr. one of It is Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the peace for this County who upon<lb></lb>
Examination of the said Vagrant did by a<lb></lb>
pass under his Hand and Seal order and direct<lb></lb>
her to be Conveyed to the Parish of Jarro in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo384">Bishoprick of Dunham</rs>
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being the place of her<lb></lb>
last legal Settlement And the Petrs. therefore<lb></lb>
praying that this Court would be pleased to<lb></lb>
Order the Treasurer of this County to pay the<lb></lb>
Petrs. such a Sum of money as this Court<lb></lb>
shall adjudge a Reasonable Satisfaction for<lb></lb>
the charges the said parish has been put unto<lb></lb>
on Account of the lying in of the said Elizth<lb></lb>
Wakefield This Court upon hearing of what<lb></lb>
was alledged concerning the premisses being<lb></lb>
Satisfied that the Substance of the said<lb></lb>
peticon is here doth Order that Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55603_n240-3">John<lb></lb>
Higgs</rs>
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Treasurer of this County do pay unto<lb></lb>
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo385">parish of Enfield</rs>
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on one of them the<lb></lb>
Sum of One Pound and fourteen Shillings<lb></lb>
of lawfull money of Great Britain which<lb></lb>
this Court doth adjudge a reasonable Satisfied<lb></lb>
for the charges the said parish has been put</p>
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