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to wit.
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To the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
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Saint Clement Danes
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, in the
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, and to the Overseers of
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the Poor of the Parish , of
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Saint Anne
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in the said County & Liberty respectively.
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Whereas it hath been duty made appear unto me
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Nicholas Bond
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Esqr
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Esquire, one of His Majesty Justices of the Peace for the said County and Liberty, that
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Thomas
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Empson
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is now serving in the
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. Regiment of the Militia of the
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said County, as a Substitute for
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William Creighton
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of the said
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Parish of Saint Annes AND WHEREAS the said
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Thomas Empson
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(as such Substitute) is and from the 24th day of April 1793
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has been
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embodied, called out into actual Service, and ordered to march, and hath left a Family unable to support
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themselves, that is to say, his Wife names Amelia Empson and their
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Childborn in Wedlock, under the Age of Ten Years, named,
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Margaret Ursula
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born ow or about the Eighth day of September 1790
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Which said Wife and Child
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w dwell in the said Parish of Saint
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Clement Danes
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, at the House
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32 Stanhope Street and have dwell were ever since the said Twenty fourth
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day of April 1793
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THESE are there, by virtue and in pursuance of the Statute in such Case made and provided, to order
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and require you the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint
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Clement Danes
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, to pay to the said
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Amelia Empson
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towards the Support of herself and her said Childa
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Weekly Allowance of
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Shillings
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out of the Rates for the
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o the Poor of the said Parish of Saint
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Clement Danes
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; which said Allowance
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to be computed and reckoned from the Twenty Fourth Day of April 1793
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and to be continued and paid as aforesaid, for and during
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such Time as the said
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Thomas Empson
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shall be and remain such
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Substitute in the said Militia, and so embodied, called out into actual Service, and ordered to march; and
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his Family shall be unable to support themselves, shall dwell in the said Parish of
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Saint Clement Danes
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and
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the said Child shall be living and under the Age of Ten years but I do hereby direct that the
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Allowance for and in respect of such Child shall abate and discontinue to be Paid from the
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time she shall Allam that Age
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And I the said Justice, by virtue and in pursuance of the said Statute, do hereby require and direct
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the Overseers of the Poor of the Said Parish of
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Saint Ann
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from time to time, when and as often as you shall be thereto required
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by the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of
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Saint Clement Danes
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, to reimburse and repay to them, all such
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Sum and Sums of Money as they shall pay and advance, in pursuance of the Order made by me as aforesaid.
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Given under my Hand and Seal the Twenty fourth Day of October1794
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