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In the Matter of Appeal
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For the Appellants
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Appeal prosecuted
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Septr. Sessions 1775}
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Setsforth that by virtue of in Order or Pass Want. July executed bearing date
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the
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5th. day of August 1775
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Margaret Betten a Singlewoman was removed the
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Respondents parish to the Appellants the last Legal Settlement of the said Better being
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adjudged to be these By which order the Appellants conceived themselves aggrieved and
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therefore Appealed agt. the same and prayed that the same might be vucaled and set aside
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And that Appellants night have such other Releife in the pumes as shall seen meet.
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The Appeal by Cement of Parties as well as on Account of Multiplicity of
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has not
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yet been heard But it is aged it will be argued this day to avoid further Expence & Alderman thereon
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Case
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The only Question that can Arise on this Appeal is whether Margt. Betten the Person named
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in the Pass Warrant lived in the Appellants parish 12 Months or not
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The said Margt. Betten is a Person of Weak Intellects And it is apprehended the person of her
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being passed to the Appellants parish was occaioned by her having sworne before the Lord Mayor that
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she had lived with Mr Spior in Appellants parish for upwards of 12 Months which Oath we hope & feloise
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was not taken from a Wicked principle but occasioned by a defective Memory But we doult not the
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following proofes will rectify the defort and the Appellants prayer be granted.
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Proofes for the Appellants
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Francis Robert
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Margt. Betten
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came from
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Hogdon Workhouse
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the place
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Respondents poor are kept) soon after Easter 1773 and lived with Dept. his Wife from that
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time out as a Servt. but an Object of Compassion Dept. Wife knowing her & willing to keep her
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till she could hear of a place) till the latter end of Augt. or beginning of Septr. following the
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speaks with certainty as to the time having had a Feat for his Journeymen at the three
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Jolly Gardiners
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abt. the latter and of Augt. or beginning of Septr. 1773 and that
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Betten quitted his House on the Evening of the Feast and not before Then without to Mr.
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pier in Fish street in appellants parish To prove this Call Mr. Francis
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Robert
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Rose Hamlen
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who was a
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to Mrs. Spier Corroborates Mr Roberts
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Acct. as to the time of Betten coming to Mr. Spiers service and from the following Occasions
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she remember that she did not come till abt. a Month or Six Weeks after the Militia were drawn
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out at Mr. Spier Door which was a the 20 July 1773 And hat a few days before Mrs. Spier was
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delivered of her Child and on which occasion Betten was lived at Dept. recommendition taken
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from Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Spiers Child was born the 10 Septr. 1773 To prove this (all Mrs. Rose Hamlen
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No: We have proofe of the time of the Militia drawn out the Childs Birth.
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Mr. & Mrs. Spier will sweas to the best of their remember that Betten did not live with them
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more than 11 Months And we have Better receipt in full for 11 Months Wages child was all that
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was pd. by Spier to her And though the Recet bears date 30 Augt. 1774 she was discharged the letter
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and of July 1774 but Mr. Spier on Account of his Circumstance, was about
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at that time or
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his return paid her & take her Reced the day he pd. though she had been discharged as afsd.
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Mr. & Mrs. Spier have left the parish to become Component Witness To prove this Call for
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Mr. and Mrs. Spier
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It is apprenheded the Respondents will endeavour to prove that Betten whout immediately from their Workhouse
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seen after Easter 1773 to Mr. Spiers service should said him of proofe be offered it to decited you would
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such Evidence very shirtly thereupon as the foregoing Evidence is directly certiary thereof see the but
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