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<p n="236"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo168">MIDDLESEX</rs>
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AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
of our Lord the King, holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo169">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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, at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo170">Hicks-Hall</rs>
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, in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo171">John-Street</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
(by adjournment) on Thursday the eleventh <lb></lb>
Day of January in the Sixteenth Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, Etc. Before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50661_n236-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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Knt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50661_n236-2">David Wilmot</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50661_n236-3">David Walker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50661_n236-4">John Sherwood</rs>
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Esqrs.<lb></lb>
and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King assigned to keep the Peace in the County<lb></lb>
aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers<lb></lb>
Felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours committed <lb></lb>
in the same County</p>
<p n="237">Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish<lb></lb>
of Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo172">Mary Whitechapel</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo173">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Did at the<lb></lb>
General Session of the peace held for this County in the month of December<lb></lb>
last exhibit their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by a<lb></lb>
Warrant or order under the Hands and Seals of D Wilmot and I<lb></lb>
Penleaze <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50661_occ54">Esquires</rs>
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two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo174">County of Middlesex</rs>
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(one whereof is of the Quorum) bearing date the<lb></lb>
First day of November 1775 <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50661_n237-2">Susannah Bell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50661_occ55">Singlewoman</rs>
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and her<lb></lb>
Female Bastard Child named <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50661_n237-3">Susannah</rs>
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aged six Months and<lb></lb>
upwards (who is with her for nurture) were removed and conveyed<lb></lb>
from the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo175">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo176">County of Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid to the said Parish of Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo177">Mary Whitechapel</rs>
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as the place of<lb></lb>
the last legal settlement of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50661_n237-4">Susannah Bell</rs>
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whereby the<lb></lb>
Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved which said Appeal stood duly<lb></lb>
adjourned unto this day Now upon hearing the said Appeal and<lb></lb>
what hath been alledged by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers<lb></lb>
of the poor of the said Parishes their Counsel and Witnesses in and<lb></lb>
concerning the premises It is ordered that the said Appeal be and the<lb></lb>
same is hereby dismissed and the said Warrant or Order of the<lb></lb>
said two Justices is hereby confirmed and It is further Ordered that<lb></lb>
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50661_geo178">Mary Whitechapel</rs>
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do maintain and provide for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50661_n237-5">Susannah<lb></lb>
Bell</rs>
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and her Child until they can free themselves from the charge<lb></lb>
thereof by due course of Law</p>
<p n="238">By the Court</p>
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