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Peace for the said County of
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further appeareth unto as upon Oath that about Six years agoe
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and to deliver
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her together with this precept to the Churchwardens and
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Overseers of the Poor there or to some or one of them who are
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hereby required There to receive and provide for as they doe for
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other such Poor of their said parrish untill they shall freed
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from her by due course of Law Given under our hands and
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seales this
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