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June 1780

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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 twenty ninth
Day of Junein the twentieth 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
William Mainwaring< no role > Thomas Brooksbank< 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
Andrew Holborn above Bars in the said County Have at this present Session Exhibited
their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of an Order or Pass Warrant under
the hands and Seals of Jno Sherwood< no role > and Jasper Clarke< no role > Esquires two of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex (one whereof being of the Quorum)
bearing date the 4th day of May 1780 Ann Rice< no role > widow of John Rice< no role > and her three Children
Elizabeth< no role > aged about ten years Ann< no role > aged about eight years and Mary< no role > aged about two years
and an half were removed and conveyed from and out of the parish of Saint John of Wapping
in the said County of Middlesex to the said Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn above the Bars as
the Place of their last legal settlement whereby the Petitioners conceived 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 John of Wapping 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 order or pass Warrant 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 parish of Saint Andrew Holborn above Bars do forthwith convey and deliver
back the said Ann Rice< no role > and her said three children (together with a copy of this order)
unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint John of Wapping
or to some or one of them who are hereby required to receive and provide for the said
Ann Rice< no role > and her said three children [..] until they can free themselves
from the charge thereof by due course of Law

By the Court




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