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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 Thursday the Fifteenth day of May in the
Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of
Great Britain etc Before John Hawkins< no role > , Bartholomew Hammond< no role > , Saunders
Welch< no role > , Benjamin Cowley< 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 Elizabeth Wand< no role > the wife of John Wand< no role > of the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square in the said County of Middlesex Butcher Did at the last General Quarter Session,
of the Peace held for the said County of Middlesex in the Month of April last
Exhibit her Petition settingforth that the Petitioners Husband had turned her out of
Doors and refusing to make any Provision for her Maintenance and she being in
Great Distress was obliged to Apply to the Officers of the Parish of St. James Westmr. where
she then was who caused her to be removed by an Order of Two Justices to the Parish
of St. George Hanover Square the place of her Settlement where her said Husband
kept a House and followed the Trade of a Butcher and is a Person of sufficient ability
at his own charge to Relieve and maintain the Petitioner but refused so to do And
Praying relief in the Premisses in regard that she being of a bad state of Health
and in capable of Working for a livelyhood Which said Petition was duly Adjourned
unto this day Now upon hearing of Council on the part of the said John Wand and-
the said Elizabeth Wand< no role > the Petitioner not Appearing and no one on her behalf It is
Ordered that the said Petition be and the same is hereby Dismissed accordingly