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To the Rt. Honoble.
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all The Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace Assembled.
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The humble Petition & Appeale of the Churchwardens &
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Overseers of the Poore of the parish of
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Sheweth
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That one
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Ellen Whitton
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wth. her 5 Children by Warrant under the Hands & Seales of two of
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his Maties. Justices of the Peace within this City (one of the Quox) Dated
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18th. June 1697
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were brought and left by the Churchwardens of
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St. Gregoryes
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wth. yor. Pets to be provided
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for on the Oath of one
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Samuel Walsh
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William Whitton
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her late husband served
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Aron Watts
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Whereas in truth the said
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Aron Watts
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was a settled Inhitant in the said Parish
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before May 1685 & the said
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lived with him there
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as an Appntice above a yeare And that about Xpmas 1685 the said Aron Watts
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privately tooke a house in yor. Petr. parish of St. Mary Magdalens under ten
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pounds a yeare wth. out giveing any notice thereof According to the Law And the said
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William Whitton
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did continue with the said Aron Watts his Master thereabout
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ten monethes and then went away from him And that afterwardes the said
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Aron Watts returned to the said Parish of St Gregoryes where he abode three
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yeares dureing ye terme of his Indentures And never was a Settled Inhabitant in St.
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Mary Magdalens
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according to the Law
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Yor. Petrs. humble suite unto yor. Honors. & Worpps.: is That
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you wilbe pleased to hear them in the Prmisses And to Quash
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the said Warrt. made by the said two Justices And send the
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said
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Ellen Whitton
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& her Children Barke to the said Parish
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of
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where the said
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was legally
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settled And where the said
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William Whitton
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with him
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for above a yeare together as his Appntice.
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And they shall Pray etc.
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