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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King
holden for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street
in the said County (by Adjournment) on Thursday the Twelfth day of
January 1764 in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Third King of Great Britain Etc Before Thomas Lane< no role > [..] Thomas Kynaston< no role >
[..] , Benjamin Cowley< no role > , Saunders Welch< no role > , Esqures and other thier
Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep his Majestys
Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers
Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanours committed in the same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Liberty of Saffron
Hill Hatton Garden and Ely Rents in the Parish of Saint Andrew Holbourn in this
County Did Exhibitt their Petition to this Court at the last General Session [..]
of the peace holden for this County Setting forth that John Berwick< no role > the Elder late
of the said Liberty of Saffron Hill Hatton Garden and Ely Rents but now of the Parish of
Christ Church in the County of Middlesex Bricklayer is a Substantial House holder
in the said Parish of Christ Church and carries on a very considerable business in
the Trade of a Brick layer, and is in Affluent Circumstances That John Berwick< no role >
the younger a Son of the said John Berwick< no role > the Elder , who is of very weak Intellects
and very poor and Utterly unable to maintain himself hath been for as
considerable time past and still is maintained by and at the Sole charge of
the Petitioners and the rest of the Inhabitants of the said Liberty of Saffron
Hill Hatton Garden and Ely rents That in Regard the said John Berwick< no role > the
Father is of Sufficient Ability and very Capable of Maintaining his said Son
and ought as the Petitioners are Advised to Provide for him in Case of the Petitioners
and the rest of the Inhabitants of the said Liberty of Saffron hill Hatton Garden and
Ely rents but had Possitively refused so to do And therefore praying by their said
Petition that the said John Berwick< no role > might be compelled by the Order of this Court
to make and Allow such Weekly monthly or other Allowance for the Substance
of his said Son as this Court should Judge proper and that the Petitioners
might be otherwise releived as the Statute in that Case made and Provided
Directs and the nature of their Case Did require Which said Petition was
duly Adjourned into this day Now the said Petition coming on this day to be heard
It is Ordered by this Court that the said Petition be Dismissed for Insufficiency and
therefore It is Dismissed accordingly