Middlesex Sessions:
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January 1796

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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 Eleventh Day of January
in the Thirty sixth Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great
Britain, Etc. Before William Mainwaring< no role > , Rupert
Clarke
< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > , David Dean< 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 James
within the Liberty of Westminster in the said County Have at this present Sessions
Exhibited their petition and Appeal setting forth That by virtue of an Order under the
Hands and Seals of Robert Lewis< no role > and John Hatchett< no role > two of this Majestys Justices
of the peace in and for the said County of Middlesex (one being of the Quorum)
bearing date the Thirtieth day of October last Jane Lissemore Simmons< no role >
singlewoman was removed and conveyed from the Parish of Kensington in the
County of Middlesex aforesaid to the said Parish of Saint James as the place of
her last legal settlement whereby the petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved

NOW, upon hearing the said Appeal, in the presence and hearing of the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Kensington
and they consenting by their Counsel to the allowing the said Appeal, IT IS ORDERED,
that the said Appeal be, and the same is hereby allowed, and the said Order of the said two Jus-
tices is hereby vacated and fet aside; and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Church-
wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint James Westminster
do forthwith convey and deliver back the said Jane Lissemore Simmons< no role >
(together with a Copy of this Order) unto the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor
of the said Parish of Kensington who are hereby required to
receive and provide for the said Jane Lissemore Simmons
until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due course of Law.




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