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April 1776

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MIDDLESEX .


At the General Quarter Session 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 eighteenth
Day of Aprilin the sixteenth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of
Great Britain, Etc. Before Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knt.
David Wilmot< no role > John Sherwood< no role > David Walker< no role > Esqrs
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
Tring in the County of Hertford Have at this present Session exhibited
their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by a pass Warrant or Order
under the Hand and Seal of Thomas Cogan< no role > Esquire one of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex dated the 25th day of
January 1776 David Morgan< no role > aged about ten Years was apprehended
in the parish of Saint Mary Islington as a Rogue and Vagabond
(videlicet) wandering about and begging was removed from and out of
the said parish of Saint Mary Islington to the said parish of Tring in the
County of Hertford ans the place of Settlement of the said David Morgan< no role >
Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved now upon hearing
the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective Church-
wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said parishes their Counsel and
Witnesses in and concerning the premises It is ordered that the said Appeal
be and the same is hereby dismissed and the said order of the said Justice
is hereby confirmed and It is further ordered that the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the poor of the said parish of Tring do maintain and
provide for the said David Morgan< no role > until they can free themselves
from the charge thereof by due course of Law

By the Court.




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