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AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
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Lord the King, holden in and for the
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on Thursday the First Day of November in
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the Thirty Third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
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Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before
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, and others their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord the
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King, assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid; and
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also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other
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Misdemeanours committed in the same County.
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Whereas the Churchwardens Overseers and Trustees of the Parish of Saint George in the
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on behalf of themselves and other Inhabitants of the said Parish Have
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at this Present Session Exhibited their Petition and Appeal setting forth That one
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William
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Tilley
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belonging to the said Parish has for near Two Years past been and is now burthensome
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and chargeable thereto and maintained in the
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of the said Parish as a Pauper at the
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expence of the Petitioners and other the Inhabitants of Said Parish. That said
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is of the Age of Sixty Years or thereabouts very infirm and not capable of getting a living
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by the exertion of his own faculties in any respect as appeared to the Petitioners That the
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Petitioners had learnt that
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Son of the abovenamed
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resided in their
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said Parish and was well able to maintain his said father accordingly mad various enquiries
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into the circumstances of the said
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and find that he is an Householder and
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Inhabitant of the said Parish renting a House at Eleven Pounds per Annum by Trade a
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Staymaker and constantly employs three or four Men and verily believed said
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could support and maintain his said father. That the Expences of having kept and
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maintained said
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in the
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amounted to Twelve Pounds and
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upwards he having been paid for after the Rate of Two Stillings and eight pence per week
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during the said Time. That the Petitioners had caused various Applications to be
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made to the said
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to pay the above Sum and also to maintain his said
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Father which they apprehended that natural affection would have caused him to have done
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but which he had absolutely refused in every respect, whereby the Petitioners conceived
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themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by
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the respective Parties and their Counsel in and concerning the Premises It is Orderd
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that the said Appeal be and the same is herely dismissed
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By the Court
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