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there was so great a Majority infavour of the said
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George Young
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against the said Forest and I Powell yet
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Jacob Leroux
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Esquire and Acting Magistrate within the said Parish who
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(Attended the said Vestry and actually voted there) without waiting for
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the usual return from the Vestry Clerk went from the Church and
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immediately signed a Warrant appointing the said Forest and
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I Powell together with one Jones Overseers for the
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ensuing Year and then sent such Warrant of Appointment to
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Edmund
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Armstrong
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William Gascoigne
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Thomas Jones
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Esquires three other of
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His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County in order that they
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might sign such Warrant of Appointment and who seperately signed
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the same at their respective Houses no Petty Session having been held
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for the purpose of signing the said Warrant nor any two Justices having
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signed it in the presence of each other That the Appointment so made
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by the said Justices in favour of the Persons in the minority being in
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direct Opposition to the usual Custom exercised in the said Parish and
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without any reasonable Cause inasmuch as the said
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George Young
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(were in every Respect eligible to the said Office and
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the said Warrant of Appointment being also illegally signed as aforesaid
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the Petitioners Conceived themselves aggrieved which said Appeal
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stood duly adjourned until this Day. Now
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upon hearing the said
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Appeal and what hath been alledge by the respective parties their Cornell
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and Witnesses It appears
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on the hearing of the said
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Thomas Richardson
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and Henry Stead on behalf of themselves and others parishing
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and Inhabitants of Saint Pancras against the Warrant for the appointment
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of Overseers which was in the usual from and signed by four Justices (one of
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whom was of the Quorum) it was objected by the respondents it that no such
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Appeal from parishioners not included in the appointment lay, which objection was
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overruled, that the Warrant was signed by one of the
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Justices and then sent
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by him to the three other Justices who separately signed the same at their respective
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Houses and that no two of them had signed it in the presence of each other
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This Court therefore upon Consideration of the presences doth allow the said
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Appeal and doth vacate the said Order of the said Justices and the said appeal
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is hereby allowed and the said Order of the said two Justices is hereby vacated accordingly
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By the Court
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