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To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
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, to con-
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vey, and to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of
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the Parish of
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Middlesex,
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to wit.}
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W Blackmors
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto Us, whose
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Hands and Seals are hereunto set, being two of His
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Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Mid-
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dlesex, (one whereof being of the Quorum) by the Church
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Wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of St. Mary
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Whitechapel, in the said County,
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That
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Sarah Bowyer
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Wife of
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Thomas Bowyer
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who hath deserted and left her and her four Children Vizt
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Thomas
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Aged about fourteen years
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Joseph
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Aged about Eight
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years
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Aged about three years and
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Ann
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Aged about three week's have
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lately come to inhabit in the said parish of
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, not having gained any legal Settlement there, nor pro-
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duced any Certificate acknowledging them to be Settled else-
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where and are likely to become chargeable to the said Parish;
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We, the said Justices, upon Examination of the Premises upon
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Oath, and other Circumstances, so adjudge the same to be true,
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and do also adjudge the Place of the last legal Settlement of the
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said Sarah Bowyer and her said four Childrens
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to be in the Parish of
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in the County of Surry
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THESE are therefore, in His Majesty's Name, and by Virtue
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of the Statutes in the Behalf to require you, on Sight
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hereof, to remove and convey the said
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Sarah Bowyer and her said four Childrens
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from and out of your said Parish of St. Mary Whitechapel, to
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the said Parish of St Mary Magdalene Bermondsey
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and them deliver to the Church Wardens and Overseers of the
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Poor there, or to some or one of them, together with this our Or-
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der, or a true Copy hereof, who are hereby required to receive
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and provide for them
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according to Law. Given under our Hands and Seals this
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25th. Day of June in the Year
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of our Lord 177 9
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