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Dep of Blay & Cross
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referred to
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Smith & Mr Pritchard
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to examined
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rates
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at psons concerned
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Order made
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To the Right Worll. their Maties:
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Justices of the Peace
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for the County of Midds
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The humble peticon of
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Lawrence Cross
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and
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Thomas Blay
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of ye Sish of
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St Giles in the fields
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Sheweth
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That yor petrs. rents about thirty acres of Land each in ye Sish of
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St
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Pancras
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That on the nineteenth day of October last your petd Cross
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William Child
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Overseer of the poore
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of
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St Pancras
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ye Sume of one
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pound one shilling & four pence being rated & assest upon him for & towards
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the necesary relief of the poore of ye Sd Sish being for one whole yeare
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comenceing from Easter last past
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That in ye Sd Month of October
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Gonnes Roakes
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one of the Churchwarden
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of the Sd Sish demanded the Same of Tenn Shillings & eight pence of
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your petd Cross pretending that they had made another halfe
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years Rate for the poore
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That Since the Sd Churchwarden hath p cured a warrant against
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your peticonrs: & others Some of wth hath been forced to pay the
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Sd rate & your peticoners Stand now bound to appeare in this
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Court by the worll: Justice Higden to answer ye Same
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Yor peticonrs: humbly pray (the prmises considered) that ye Sd
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Churchwarden who is also bound over may give an account
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to this Cort: of the additionall rate there being every few
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poore in ye Sd Pish & your petd not doubting but to make
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And yor petr Shall pray Etc it appeare that ye money is misapplyed
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The humble peticon
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of
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Lawrence Cross
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&
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Thomas Blay
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