Middx

At the General Session of the peace of Our Lord the King holden for the County of Middx
at Hicks Hall in St John Street in the said County (by Adjournment) on Friday the nineteenth
of December 1764 in the 5th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George 3rd by the grace of God
King of Great Britain Etc Before Thomas lane< no role > George Errington< no role > Saunders Welch< no role > Benjamin
Cowley< no role > Esqrs . & Others their 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 & Other
Misdemeanours Committed in the same County

Whereas the Churchwardens Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of St Luke in the County of Middlesex Have at this
present Session Exhibited their Petition & Appeal Setting forth that by virtue of a Warrant or Order under the Hands & Seals
of William Caslon< no role > & Robert Pell< no role > Esquires two of His Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex aforesaid
one whereof being of the Quorum bearing Date the 5th day of December 1764. William Hutchins< no role > & Mary< no role > his Wife their 2
Children Namely William< no role > aged 5 Years & John< no role > aged 3 Years&¾ were removed from & out of the Parish of St Leonard Shoredich in
the County aforesaid to the said Parish of St Luke as the place of their last legal Settlement hereby the Petitioner conceived
themselves to be aggreived Now upon hearing of the said Appeal in the Presence of the Churchwardens & Overseers of the poor of
the said Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch & their Councel in & concerning the Premisses it Appearing to this Court in Evidence
That the said William Hutchins< no role > the father at his age of 15 Years was bound Apprentice to the Parish by St. Peter Cornhill to
Frost a Shoemaker in Southwark till he should come to the Age of twenty four years That he served his
Master there 3 Years that the Master the removed to the Parish of St Luke Middlesex taking the Pauper with him where
he served 4 Years That the Master then told the Pauper to go about his business & work for himself that noone was present at
the parting but his Master & him That the Indentures were not Cancelled or delivered That the Pauper hired himself to several
Masters of the same trade as a Journey man Shoemaker in different Paintres that the Pauper beleived the said
Frost did not know that Masters he worned with after he left him not was he ever called upon by
or did he were Account with the said Frost for what he Earned but applied the Money to his own Use nor did
the said Frost ever make any inquiry after him as he knew of or make any provision for his after he left him That he worked
& lodged the last 40 days before he attained the Age of 24 Years in the Parish of St Leonard Shoreditch Under the above
Circumstances The Cowrtare of Opinion that the said William Hutchins< no role > hath not gained a settlement in the said Parish
of St Leonard Shoreditch This Court doth therefore Ratify Confirm the Adjudication & Order of the said 2 Justices of the
Peace & the same is hereby Confirmed accordingly And the Petition & Appeal aforesaid against the same is hereby dismissed
And it is further Ordered that the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of St Luke Do
maintain & provide for the said Poor Man his Wife & Children untill they can free themselves from the Charge
thereof by due Course of Law