there was so great a Majority infavour 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 and 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 upon hearing the said
Appeal and what hath been alledge by the respective parties their Cornell
and Witnesses It appearson the hearing of the said John Abrahams< no role >
Thomas Richardson< no role > and Henry Stead on behalf of themselves and others parishing
and Inhabitants of Saint Pancras against the Warrant for the appointment
of Overseers which was in the usual from and signed by four Justices (one of
whom was of the Quorum) it was objected by the respondents it that no such
Appeal from parishioners not included in the appointment lay, which objection was
overruled, that the Warrant was signed by one of the [mark] Justices and then sent
by him to the three other Justices who separately signed the same at their respective
Houses and that no two of them had signed it in the presence of each other
This Court therefore upon Consideration of the presences 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