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May 1774

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MIDDLESEX .


AT the GeneralSession of the Peace
of our Lord the King, holden in and for the County
of Middlesex , at Hicks-Hall , in Saint John-Street ,
(by adjournment) on Thursday the Nineteenth
Day of May in the FourteenthYear of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of
Great Britain, Etc Before Six John Hawkins< no role > Knight Benjamin
Cowley
< no role > John Walford< no role > John Spencer Colepeper< no role > Esquires and others their fellows
Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep Peace in the said
County and also to hear determine divers Felonies Trespasses and
other Misdemeanors committed in the same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of St James Garlick
Hith in the City of London Did at the General Session of the Peace held for this County in the
Month of February last Exhibit their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by virtue
of an order or Pass warrant under the Hands and Seals of Two of his Majesty's Justices of
the Peace for the County of Middlesex bearing date the Fifth day of January 1774 Elizabeth
Pearson
< no role > wife of John Pearson< no role > who was gone away and list her and her four Children
Namely Charlotte< no role > aged about Eight Years Jane< no role > aged about seven Years Elizabeth< no role > aged
about four Years and George< no role > aged about one Year were removed from and out of the Parish
of Saint Luke in the said County of Middlesex into the said Parish of Saint James
Garlick hith in the City of London as the Place of their last legal settlement Whereby
the Pettioners conceiv'd themselves aggrieved which said Appeal hath been duly
adjourned unto this day Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been
alledged by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish [..]
their Counsel and witnesses in and concerning the Premises It is Ordered that the said
appeall be and the same is here by dismissed and the said Order or Pass warrant of
the said Two Justices is hereby confirm'd And is further Ordered that the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of St James Garlick
Hith do Maintain and provide for the said Elizabeth Pearson and her four Children
until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due course of Law.

By the Court
Butler




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