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to received and obey.
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John Staples
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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
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, in and for the County of Mid-
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Peter Allam
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and their three Children Vizt
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Ann
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Aged about
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Six Years
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Aged about Eighteen Months 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 acknowleding them to be settled esle -
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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, do 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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and their said three Children
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to be in the
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THESE are therefore, in His Majesty's Name, and by Virtue
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of the Statutes in that Behalf, to require you, on Sight
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hereof, to removed and convey the said
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and their said three Children
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from and out of your said Parish of
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, to
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the said
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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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Day of May in the Year
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of our Lord 17 85
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