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June 1788

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there was so great a Majesty in favour of the said John Hall< no role > and George Young< no role >
against the said Forest and I Powell yet Jacob Leroux< no role > Esquire
an Acting Magistrate within the said parish who (attended the said Vestry and
actually voted there)without waiting for the usual return from the Vestry Clerk
went from the Church and immediately signed a Warrant appointing the said

Forest and I Powell together with one Jones Overseers
for the ensuing Year and then sent such Warrant of Appointment to Edmund
Armstrong
< no role > , William Gascoigne< no role > , and Thomas Jones< no role > Esquires three other of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County in order that they might
sign such Warrant of Appointment and who seperately signed the same
at their respective Houses no Petty Session having been held for the purpose
of signing the said Warrant nor any two Justices having signed it in the
presence of each other That the Appointment so made by the said Justices
in favour of the persons in the Minority being in direct Opposition to the
usual Custom exercised in the said Parish and without any reasonable
Cause inasmuch as the said John Hall< no role > and George Young< no role > ( were in every
respect eligible to the said Office and the said Warrant of Appointment being
also illegally signed as aforesaid the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved
which said Appeal stood duly adjourned until this Day. Now on the
hearing of the said Appeal of the said John Abrahams< no role > Thomas Richardson< no role >
and Henry Stead< no role > on behalf of themselves and others Parishioners and
Inhabitants of Saint Pancras against the Warrant for the appointment of
Overseer which was in the usual form and signed by four Justices (one of
whom was of the Quorum)And the subsistance of the Allegations contained
in the said Petition having been duly proved or Admitted It was objected by

the Respondents firstthat no such Appeal from Parshioners nor included in
whereupon was then insisted by the [..]
the appointment lay, which objection was overruled, secondly that the Warrant
Passport di yes Appeal of Admitted by the Geoporderly
was signed by one of the Justices and then sent by such to the third other Justices
who seperately signed the same at their respective Houses and that in two of
them had signed it in the presence of each other which part was admitted by the Respondents This Court therefore upon
Consideration of the premises doth allow the said Appeal and doth Vacate the
said Order of the said Justices and the said Appeal is hereby allowed and the
said Order of the said two Justices is hereby vacated accordingly

By the Court

I understood the Fact alledged in the putn
were either admitted [..] or proved and that the [..]
determination of the Court was upon the whole
state of the care taken together

WM.




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