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To the Right Honorable the Lord
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Mayor and others His Majesty's Justices
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of the Peace for the City of London and Liberties
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thereof at their General Sessions of the
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Peace Assembled.
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of the Churchwardens
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and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint George
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in the County of Middlesex.
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Sheweth,
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That by virtue of an Order of Removal under the Hands
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and Seals of Two of His Majesty's
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John
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Sawbridge
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Esquire
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, and Sir
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James Esdaile
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, (one being of the
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Quorum) for the
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aforesaid, bearing date the
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twenty
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second day of April 1776
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Ann
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the
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of
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Phillip Pilgrim
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(who
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was then in
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the Poultry Compter
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in the said City of London confined
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for Debt) and her four Children (videlicet)
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George
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aged Five years and
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upwards,
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Harriot
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aged Three years and upwards,
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Houghton
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aged
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Eighteen months, and an Infant not then Christened aged Three Weeks
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were Removed from the
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parish of Allhallows Barking
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in the City
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of London to the said parish of Saint George And the said Two last
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mentioned Justices of the Peace for the said City of London and
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Liberties thereof in and by the said Order of Removal adjudged the
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last Legal Settlement of Phillip Pilgrim Husband of the said Ann
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to be in the said parish of Saint George by the Description of the
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parish of Saint George in the East
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in the
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That your Petitioners are advised and believe that the
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last legal Settlement of the said Phillip Pilgrim is not in the said parish
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of Saint George as by the said Order is supposed and therefore they conceive
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themselves to be aggrieved by the said Order and Determination of the
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said Two Justices and Do humbly appeal to your worships against
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the same
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Your Petitioners therefore as well on the part and behalf of
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themselves as of the other Inhabitants and parishioners
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of the said parish of Saint George Do Humbly pray that
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the said Order of Removal of the said Ann the Wife of the
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said Phillips Pilgrim and her Four Children may be
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Quashed And that your Petitioners may be further and
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otherwise Relieved in the premises as to your Worships
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shall seem meet.
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And your Petitioners will ever pray Etc
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Major Wright
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Sollr. for the Appellants
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