Middlesex Sessions:
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December 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 eighth
Day of December in the fifteenthYear of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of
Great Britain, Etc. Before Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knt
Benjamin Cowley< no role > , David Wilmot< no role > , Saunders Welch< no role > Esqrs and
others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King
assigned to keep the Peace in the County of Middlesex 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 George Hanover Square within the Liberty of Westminster
in the said County did at the last General Quarter Session of the peace held for this County
Exhibit their Petition and Appeal Setting forth That by Virtue of a
Pass Warrant or order under the Hands and Seals of Saunders Welch< no role >
and G. Wrighte Esquires Two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting
in and for the County of Middlesex (one whereof being of the Quorum)
bearing date the nineteenth day of October one Thousand seven
hundred and seventy four Joseph Sherwood< no role > and his wife Catharine< no role >
were removed from the parish of Saint Mary le bone in the County of
Middlesex to the parish of Saint George Hanover Square within the
Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex as the place of
their last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioner think themselves
aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal in the presence and
hearing of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of
Saint Mary le bone and they consenting by their Counsel to the
allowing the said Appeal It is Ordered that the said Appeal be and
the same is hereby allowed and the said Pass Warrant or order of the
said two Justices is hereby vacated and set aside And it is further
ordered that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said
Parish of Saint George Hanover Square or some or one of them do forthwith convey and
deliver back the said Joseph Sherwood< no role > and his wife Catharine< no role > together with a Copy of their order unto
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
Mary le bone or some or one of them who are hereby required to receive
and provide for the said Joseph Sherwood< no role > and Catharine his Wife
until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due course
of Law.

By the Court.




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