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At the GeneralSession of the Peace<lb></lb>
of our Lord the King, holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo123">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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, at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo124">Hicks-Hall</rs>
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, in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo125">John-Street</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
(by Adjournment) on Thursday the Ninteenth<lb></lb>
Day of May - in the Fourteenth - Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, Etc. . Before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n190-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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Knight,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n190-2">Benjamin Cowley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n190-3">John Walford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n190-4">John Spencer Colepeper</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50640_occ43">Esquires</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to<lb></lb>
keep the Peace in the said County said also to<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed<lb></lb>
in the same County.</p>
<p n="191">Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo126">Saint James<lb></lb>
Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the County Have at this Present Session Exhibited their Petition<lb></lb>
and Appeal setting forth That by a Passwarrant or Order under the Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals of Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n191-1">James Esdaile</rs>
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Knight and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n191-2">John Walford</rs>
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Esqrs. two of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50640_occ44">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo127">County of Middlesex</rs>
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(one whereof being of the Quorum)<lb></lb>
bearing date the Twelfth day of April 1774 A male Bastard Child named <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n191-4">Thomas</rs>
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aged about four months born in the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n191-3">Sarah Cooper</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50640_occ45">Singlewoman</rs>
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was removed<lb></lb>
from and out of the Parish of Saint Luke in the said County to the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo128">Saint<lb></lb>
James Clerkenwell</rs>
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as the Place of the last legal settlement of the said Male Bastard Child<lb></lb>
Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing the said<lb></lb>
Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective Churchwardens and Overseers of<lb></lb>
the Poor of the said Parishes their Councel and witnesses in and concerning the premises<lb></lb>
It is Ordered that the said Appeal be and the same is hereby allowed and the<lb></lb>
said pass warrant or Eatter of the said two Justices is hereby vacated and set aside<lb></lb>
And it is further Ordered that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo129">Saint James Clerkenwell</rs>
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do forthwith Convey and deliver Cach the<lb></lb>
said male Bustard Child named Thomas (together with a Copy of this Order) unto the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Luke or to<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
or one of them who are hereby required to receive and provide for the said Male Bastard<lb></lb>
Child named Thomas until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due<lb></lb>
course of Law</p>
<p n="192">By the Court</p>
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