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To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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to receive and obey.
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to wit.}
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N: Reynell
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto Us,
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whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set, being Two
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of his Majesty's
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, (one where of being of the Quorum), by the
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in the said County, That
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Thomas
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you about six years
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aged about three
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Years and
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aged about Eighteen Month
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lately came to inhabit in the said Parish of St. Mary,
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, not having gained any legal Settlement there,
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nor produced any Certificate acknowledging than to be
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settled elsewhere, and are likely to become chargeable
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to the said Parish: We, the said Justices, upon Examina-
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tion of the Premiss upon Oath, and other Circumstance,
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do adjudge the same to be true, and do also adjudge the
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place of the last legal Settlement of the said
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Hester his Wife and
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this saw four Children
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in the
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THESE are therefore, in his Majesty's Name, and by
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Virtue of the Statutes in that Behalf, to require you
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on Sight hereof, to remove and convey the said
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this said four Children
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from and out of your said
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and than deliver to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of
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the Poor there, or to some or one of them, together with
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this out Order, or a true Copy hereof, who are hereby re-
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quired to receive and provide for them
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according to Law.
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Given under our Hands and Seals this
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17th
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Day of Januray in the Year of our Lord One
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Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety five
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