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Person had been put into the Almshouse and that they
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should investigate samebut before the Churchwarden
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was called upon to put the Question by the Motion being
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seconded-some desultory Conversation having taken place
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A Motion was made by Mr. Hitchon and
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was seconded by Mr. Stone that the Churchwarden
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be requested by Vestry to desire the Trustees of the Holborn
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Estate to call a Meeting and examine before their
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Board into the Qualifications of the several Almswomen
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now in the Almshouses and report the result of last
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their Examinations to the next Vestryand the
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Question being put. Orderd accordingly nem. con.
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Directions were therefore given to the Vestry Clerk by
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the Churchwarden to call a Meeting of the Trustees
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of the Holborn Estate for the purpose aforesaid in
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Thursday Evening next
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Application was made on behalf of a Boy the
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for of Mr- Bennicott a Parishour stating that
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his Motherland provided a proper Master to place
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him out Apprentice to, and that the Master was
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willing to take him if she could raise a
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of five pounds, and requesting that the Vestry
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would grant her same and the Question being
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put whether the same should be allowed or not,
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it was negatived by a considerable Majority and
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Ordered that the Overseers do act in then Disnetion
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not apprenting him not in such way nothing think
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