Middlesex Sessions:
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September 1718

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Ad General Quarterial Session pacis Dui Regis tent P Com Middx
apnd Hicks hall in St. John Street in Com prd. P adjorn die
Veneris scilt Undecimo die July anno regin Dui Georgy mmc
Regis Magne Britannie Etc quarto coram Whitelock Bulstrode< no role >
Johe Fuller< no role > Doyly Michel< no role > Johe Ellis< no role > Johe Venner< no role > Jacobo
Delamot Blaguy
< no role > Thoma Rand< no role > Armigeris & al Socys [..]
Justic dci Dui Regis ad pacem in Com prd. conservand necuon
ad divers felow trnsgr & al malefacta in eodem Com Ppetrat
andiend & terminand assign Etc

The matter of the appeale of Thomas Norris< no role > of the Liberty of
Finsbury in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate in this
County Stable keeper against atheRate made this prsent yeare 1718 for releife of the
poor of the said Parish [..] comeing on to be heard & determined
by this Court in the presence of the said Appellant & Mr. Malet
his Councell and alsoe of the Overseers of the poor of the same
parish & Mr. Corbett their Councell, It was alledged by the
Councell for the said Appellant that the sd.Appellant
haveing had great losses is reduced to great streights and
necessitys. and become very poor , And that he haveing formarly
appealed against the poors rate of the sd. Parish The Court of
Quarter Sessions of the peace holden for this County by adjornmt.
on the seventeenth day of July in the third yeare of the reign
of his Present Matie. King George was (Upon the heareing of
such appeale & of what was alledged on both Sides) of opinion
that the said Appellant in respect of his Poverty & mean
circumstances ought not to have been charged with
any sume of money in such poors Rate, and did
thereupon Order that he should be absolutely discharged
of & from the paymt. of any money towards releife of the
Poor of the said Parish, And that the said Appelleant is
not now in any better circumstance or condicon than he
then was, and that in respect of his poverty he ought not to be




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