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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for-<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo1">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at Hicks Hall in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo2">John Street</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County (by Adjournment) on Thursday the Fifteenth day of May in the<lb></lb>
Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of<lb></lb>
Great Britain etc Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50560_n1-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50560_n1-2">Bartholomew Hammond</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50560_n1-3">Saunders<lb></lb>
Welch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50560_n1-4">Benjamin Cowley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50560_occ1">Esquires</rs>
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and others their Fellows Justices of our said<lb></lb>
Lord the King Assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and<lb></lb>
also to hear and Determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other<lb></lb>
misdemeanours committed in the same County</p>
<p n="2">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50560_n2-1">Elizabeth Wand</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50560_occ2">wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50560_n2-10">John Wand</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo3">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo4">Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo5">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50560_occ3">Butcher</rs>
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Did at the last General Quarter Session,<lb></lb>
of the Peace held for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo6">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in the Month of April last<lb></lb>
Exhibit her Petition settingforth that the Petitioners Husband had turned her out of<lb></lb>
Doors and refusing to make any Provision for her Maintenance and she being in<lb></lb>
Great Distress was obliged to Apply to the Officers of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo7">Parish of St. James</rs>
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Westmr. where<lb></lb>
she then was who caused her to be removed by an Order of Two Justices to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo8">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50560_geo9">Hanover Square</rs>
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the place of her Settlement where her said Husband<lb></lb>
kept a House and followed the Trade of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50560_occ4">Butcher</rs>
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and is a Person of sufficient ability<lb></lb>
at his own charge to Relieve and maintain the Petitioner but refused so to do And<lb></lb>
Praying relief in the Premisses in regard that she being of a bad state of Health<lb></lb>
and in capable of Working for a livelyhood Which said Petition was duly Adjourned<lb></lb>
unto this day Now upon hearing of Council on the part of the said John Wand and-<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50560_n2-2">Elizabeth Wand</rs>
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the Petitioner not Appearing and no one on her behalf It is<lb></lb>
Ordered that the said Petition be and the same is hereby Dismissed accordingly</p>
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