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At the GeneralSession of the Peace
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Day of May - in the Fourteenth - Year of the
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Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of
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and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to
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keep the Peace in the said County said also to
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divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed
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in the County Have at this Present Session Exhibited their Petition
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and Appeal setting forth That by a Passwarrant or Order under the Hands and
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was removed
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from and out of the Parish of Saint Luke in the said County to the Parish of
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as the Place of the last legal settlement of the said Male Bastard Child
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Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing the said
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Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers of
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the Poor of the said Parishes their Councel and witnesses in and concerning the premises
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It is Ordered that the said Appeal be and the same is hereby allowed and the
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said pass warrant or Eatter of the said two Justices is hereby vacated and set aside
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do forthwith Convey and deliver Cach the
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said male Bustard Child named Thomas (together with a Copy of this Order) unto the
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Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Luke or to
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or one of them who are hereby required to receive and provide for the said Male Bastard
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Child named Thomas until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due
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