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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 Friday
the Eleventh day of April in the Sixth Year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain Etc. before
John Hawkins< no role >
,
Saunders Welch< no role >
,
George Garrett< no role >
Thomas Kynaston< no role >
Esquires
and others their Fellows Justices of our
said Lord the King Assigned to keep the 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
Borcham in the County of Essex
have exhibited their Petition and Appeal
to this Court setting forth that by virtue of a Warrant under the hands
and Seals of two of his Majestys Justices of the Peace
for the County of
Middlesex
(one of them being of the Quorum) bearing date the fifteenth
day of February last past Ann Pearce< no role >
Singlewoman
was removed
and Conveyed from the Parish of St. Mathew
Bethnall Green
in the
said County of Middlesex
to the said Parish of Boreham
as the
place of her last legal Settlement whereby the Petitioners apprehend
themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing of what hath been alledged
on either side by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers their
Council and Witnesses in and concerning the Premises This Court is
of Opinion that the last legal Settlement of the said Poor Woman is at
Borcham
aforesaid And doth therefore dismiss the said Appeal and ratify
and confirm the said Warrant or Order of removal and the same is
hereby ratifyed and Confirmed accordingly And doth Order that the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Borcham
do maintain and provide for the said Poor Woman as for their other Poor
according to Law.
By the Court
Waller