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 fourteenth
Day of January - in the nineteenth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King
of Great Britain, Etc. Before Sir
John Hawkins< no role >
Knight
the Reverend Sir
George Booth< no role >
Baronet
David Wilmot< no role >
James Spagg< 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 the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of
Saint
Vedast
Foster Lane
in the City of London
Did at the last General Session of the
Peace held for this County 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 twenty sixth day of
November one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight Samuel Cox< no role >
and Mary< no role >
his
wife
were removed from and out of the parish of
Saint Giles in the fields
in the said
County of Middlesex
into the said parish of
Saint Vedast
Foster Lane
in the City of
London
as the place of their last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioners conceived
themselves aggrieved Which said Appeal stood duly adjourned unto this day
Whereupon the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of
Saint
Vadast
Foster Lane
being solemnly called to support their said Appeal and not
appearing It is ordered that the said Appeal be and the same is hereby dismissed
and the said Order or Pass Warrant of the said two Justices is hereby confirmed
And It is further ordered that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of
the Parish of Saint Vedast Foster Lane
in the City of London
do maintain and
provide for the said Samuel Cox< no role >
and Mary his wife until they can free
themselves from the charge thereof by due course of Law
By the Court