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there was so great a Majesty in favour of the said
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George Young
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against the said Forest and I Powell yet
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Jacob Leroux
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Esquire
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an Acting Magistrate within the said parish who (attended the said Vestry and
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actually voted there)without waiting for the usual return from the Vestry Clerk
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went from the Church and immediately signed a Warrant appointing the said
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Forest and I Powell together with one Jones Overseers
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for the ensuing Year and then sent such Warrant of Appointment to
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Edmund
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Armstrong
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William Gascoigne
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Thomas Jones
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Esquires three other of His
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Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County in order that they might
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sign such Warrant of Appointment and who seperately signed the same
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at their respective Houses no Petty Session having been held for the purpose
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of signing the said Warrant nor any two Justices having signed it in the
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presence of each other That the Appointment so made by the said Justices
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in favour of the persons in the Minority being in direct Opposition to the
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usual Custom exercised in the said Parish and without any reasonable
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Cause inasmuch as the said
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George Young
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( were in every
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respect eligible to the said Office and the said Warrant of Appointment being
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also illegally signed as aforesaid the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved
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which said Appeal stood duly adjourned until this Day. Now on the
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hearing of the said Appeal of the said
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John Abrahams
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Thomas Richardson
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and
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Henry Stead
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on behalf of themselves and others Parishioners and
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Inhabitants of
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Saint Pancras
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against the Warrant for the appointment of
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Overseer which was in the usual form and signed by four Justices (one of
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whom was of the Quorum)
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And the subsistance of the Allegations contained
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in the said Petition having been duly proved or Admitted It was objected by
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the Respondents
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first
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that no such Appeal from Parshioners nor included in
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whereupon was then insisted by the
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the appointment lay, which objection was overruled, secondly that the Warrant
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Passport di yes Appeal of Admitted by the Geoporderly
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was signed by one of the Justices and then sent by such to the third other Justices
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who seperately signed the same at their respective Houses and that in two of
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them had signed it in the presence of each other which part was admitted by the Respondents This Court therefore upon
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Consideration of the premises doth allow the said Appeal and doth Vacate the
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said Order of the said Justices and the said Appeal is hereby allowed and the
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said Order of the said two Justices is hereby vacated accordingly
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By the Court
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I understood the Fact alledged in the putn
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were either admitted
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or proved and that the
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determination of the Court was upon the whole
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state of the care taken together
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WM.
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