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At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our sovereign Lord the King holden for the County
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in the twenty fourth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the second
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King of Great Britain Etc
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St. Clement Danes
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in this County
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have exhibited their humble petition unto this Court setting forth That
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Mary Alloway
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a Vagrant
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not having a settlement in the said Parish was on or about the First day of same last taken out of
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in Labour and sent by the Overseers of the Poor to
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one of the
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Parish Nurses of the said Parish where she was delivered of a Male Bastard
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Child by means whereof the Inhabitants of the said Parish were obliged necessarily to expand the sum
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of one pounds Sixteen shillings and Six pence for the lying in & maintenance of the said
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, And that in pursuance of the Act of Parliament in such case made the Petrs. conveyed
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and committed her to the House of Correction pursuant to the said statute, And the Petitioners therefore
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prayed this Court will Order the Treasurer of this County to pay them the said sum of one pounds
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Sixteen Shillings and six pence, Now Forasmuch as it appeareth to this Court Upon Oath that the said sum of
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one pound sixteen shillings and six pence was necessary laid out and expended for the
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as aforesaid, whereupon This Court
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doth by virtue of the statute in such case
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made & provided Order that Mr.
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of this County do pay the said sum of one pound sixteen shillings and sixteen pence unto the
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Petitioners or one of them which this Court doth adjudge to be a reasonable satisfaction for the
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charges which they have been at for the lying in & maintanance of the said Mary Allowing as
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aforesaid And the receipt of the Petitioners or one of them together with this Order or a true copy
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thereof shall be a sufficient discharged to the said Treasurer for such payment.
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By the Court
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Waller
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