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<p n="51"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
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At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50539_geo71">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at Hicks Hall in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50539_geo72">John Street</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County (by Adjournment) on Tuesday the Eleventh day of September 1764<lb></lb>
in the Fourth year of the Reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God King of Great Britain Etc Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n51-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n51-2">Thomas Niccoll</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n51-3">Benjamin Cowley</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n51-4">Gerrard Howard</rs>
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Esquire and others.<lb></lb>
their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine<lb></lb>
divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanours committed in the<lb></lb>
same County</p>
<p n="52">Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50539_geo73">Westminster</rs>
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Did at the last General Quarter Session Exhibitt their<lb></lb>
Petition and Appeal to this Court setingforth that by virtue of an Order under the hands<lb></lb>
and Seals of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-1">Thomas Miller</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-2">Nicholas Spencer</rs>
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Esquire two of his Majesty's Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50539_geo74">Westminster</rs>
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dated the Eighteenth day of July<lb></lb>
last <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-3">Amelia Bissell</rs>
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Widow of John Bisill deceased and her three Children vizt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-100">John</rs>
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Aged Eleven years <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-101">Alice</rs>
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aged three years and one Quarter and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-102">Hercules</rs>
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aged One year<lb></lb>
were Removed from the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50539_geo75">Saint Margaret</rs>
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in the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50539_geo76">Westminster</rs>
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to the<lb></lb>
said Parish of Saint James as the place of their last legal Settlement Whereby the<lb></lb>
Petitioners thought themselves Aggrieved Which Appeal was duly Adjourned to this<lb></lb>
day Now upon hearing of the said Appeal in the presence of the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the Poor of the respective Parishes of Saint Margaret and the said Parish<lb></lb>
of Saint James and their respective Council and having heard what could be<lb></lb>
Alledged on either side by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers their Council<lb></lb>
and Witnesses in and concerning the Premisses It appeared that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-4">John Bissell</rs>
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deceased the Husband of the said Amelia and the Father of the said three Children<lb></lb>
John Alice and Hercules being an unmarried Person having no Child and being a<lb></lb>
Soldier inlisted in his Majesty's guards hired himself to<lb></lb>
of the Parish of Saint James for the Term of a year that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-5">John Bissell</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Father accordrngly served the said for the space of a year<lb></lb>
from the said time of the said Hireing and lived and resided with the said<lb></lb>
during the said year in the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50539_geo77">Saint James Westminster</rs>
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and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-6">John Bissell</rs>
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had not since gained any other Settlement This<lb></lb>
Court upon consideration of the Premisses is of opinion that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50539_n52-7">John Bissell</rs>
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being a Soldier inlisted in the Service of His Majesty had</p>
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