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January 1792

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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 the Session-House for the said
County, () on Monday
the Ninth Day of January
in the Thirty second Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great
Britain, Etc. Before William Mainwaring< no role > , William
Bleamire
< no role > , Nathaniel Conant< no role > , David Walker< 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 com-
mitted in the same County.

WHEREAS the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
Margaret Lothbury in the City of London 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 Herbert Mayo< no role > doctor in divinity and John Staples< no role > Esquire two of this
Majestys Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex (whereof one is of the
Quorum) bearing date the tenth day of December 1791 Ann Horner< no role > Singlewoman and
her two Bastard Children namely John Francis Guyard< no role > aged Four Years and
upwards and Robert Peter Guyard< no role > aged One Year and Six Months for nurture were
conveyed from and out of the Parish of Saint George in the County of Middlesex and
delivered to the Petitioners being the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the
said Parish of Saint Margaret Lothbury in the said City of London (the said Justices
adjudging the lawful settlement of the said Ann Horner to be in the said Parish of
Saint Margaret Lothbury (whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved
Now, upon hearing the said Appeal, and what hath been alledged by the respective
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parishes their Counsel and Witnesses
in and concerning the Premises. IT IS ORDERED, that the said Appeal be, and the
same is hereby dismissed, and that the said Order of the said two Justices be, and the same is
hereby confirmed; And IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Margaret Lothbury do maintain
and provide for the said Ann Horner< no role > and her said two Children
until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due course of Law.

By the COURT,
Selby




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