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<p n="293">To the Worshipfull His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50640_occ91">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo300">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their General Sessions of the Peace<lb></lb>
holden by Adjournment at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo301">Hicks Hall</rs>
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on Tuesday the<lb></lb>
twelfth Day of April 1774 in and for the said County<lb></lb>
assembled</p>
<p n="294">The Humble Petition and Appeal of the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo302">Spesbury</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo303">County of Dorset</rs>
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</p>
<p n="295"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by a certain Pass or Order of Removal bearing<lb></lb>
Date the thirtieth Day of March last past and signed and executed by The<lb></lb>
Right Honourable The Lord Dudley and Ward and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n295-1">William Ruggs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Esquire two of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50640_occ92">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the City and<lb></lb>
Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo304">Westminster</rs>
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Renting that a Complaint had been made unto<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
as such Justices (one whereof being of the Quorum) by the Church<lb></lb>
wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo305">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo306">Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n295-2">Elizabeth Walters</rs>
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(Widow of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n295-3">Thomas Walters</rs>
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) aged<lb></lb>
fifty eight Years had lately intruded and come into the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo307">Parish of<lb></lb>
St George Hanover Square</rs>
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and become chargeable to the same, They the<lb></lb>
said Justices upon Examination of the Premises upon Oath and other<lb></lb>
Circumstances did adjudge the same to be true and did also adjudge<lb></lb>
the Place of the last legal Settlement of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n295-4">Elizabeth Walters</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to be in the said Parish of Spesbury in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo308">County of Dorset</rs>
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The<lb></lb>
said Justices therefore in His Majesty's Name required the said<lb></lb>
Church Wardens and Overseers of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo309">Parish of St George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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to remove and convey the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50640_n295-5">Elizabeth Walters</rs>
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from and out<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50640_geo310">Parish of St George Hanover Square</rs>
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to the said Parish of<lb></lb>
Spesbury and her deliver to the Churchwardens and Overseers of<lb></lb>
the Poor there or to some or one of there together with the<lb></lb>
said Pass or Order (or a true Copy thereof) who were thereby<lb></lb>
required to receive and provide for her according to Law</p>
<p n="296">By which said Pass or Order of the said two Justices<lb></lb>
(which was served on your Petitioners the fifth Day of this<lb></lb>
instant April and not before) Your Petitioners and Appellants</p>
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