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At the General 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 Tuesday the Eleventh day of September 1764
in the Fourth year of the Reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third
by the Grace of God King of Great Britain Etc Before Thomas Lane< no role >
Thomas Niccoll< no role > Benjamin Cowley< no role > . Gerrard Howard< no role > Esquire and others.
their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep his
Majesty's 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 Parish of Saint James
within the Liberty of Westminster Did at the last General Quarter Session Exhibitt their
Petition and Appeal to this Court setingforth that by virtue of an Order under the hands
and Seals of Thomas Miller< no role > and Nicholas Spencer< no role > Esquire two of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster dated the Eighteenth day of July
last Amelia Bissell< no role > Widow of John Bisill deceased and her three Children vizt. John< no role >
Aged Eleven years Alice< no role > aged three years and one Quarter and Hercules< no role > aged One year
were Removed from the Parish of Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster to the
said Parish of Saint James as the place of their last legal Settlement Whereby the
Petitioners thought themselves Aggrieved Which Appeal was duly Adjourned to this
day Now upon hearing of the said Appeal in the presence of the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the respective Parishes of Saint Margaret and the said Parish
of Saint James and their respective Council and having heard what could be
Alledged on either side by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers their Council
and Witnesses in and concerning the Premisses It appeared that John Bissell< no role >
deceased the Husband of the said Amelia and the Father of the said three Children
John Alice and Hercules being an unmarried Person having no Child and being a
Soldier inlisted in his Majesty's guards hired himself to
of the Parish of Saint James for the Term of a year that the said John Bissell< no role > the
Father accordrngly served the said for the space of a year
from the said time of the said Hireing and lived and resided with the said
during the said year in the said Parish of Saint James Westminster
and that the said John Bissell< no role > had not since gained any other Settlement This
Court upon consideration of the Premisses is of opinion that the said John Bissell< no role >
being a Soldier inlisted in the Service of His Majesty had