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<p n="468"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> London, </note>
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To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo529">St. Michael</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo530">Queen hithe</rs>
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London,<lb></lb>
and the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor<lb></lb>
of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo531">St. Mary Abchurch</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo532">London</rs>
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<p n="469"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n469-1">Jno. Thompson</rs>
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Mayor</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n469-2">Robt Alsop</rs>
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto us, two of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this City and the Liber-<lb></lb>
ties thereof (one being of the Quorum) by you the Church-<lb></lb>
wardens, and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo533">St. Michael at<lb></lb>
Queen hithe</rs>
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London, that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n469-3">Mary Poston</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15048_occ220">Widow</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n469-4">William Poston</rs>
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is<lb></lb>
lately come to reside in your said Parish not having obtained any legal<lb></lb>
Settlement there, and is likely to become chargeable thereto, unless<lb></lb>
timely prevented; which Complaint we judge to be true and for as much<lb></lb>
as it appears unto us by the Oath of the said. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n469-5">Mary Poston</rs>
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that her<lb></lb>
late Husband <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n469-6">William Poston</rs>
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alwayes declared that he<lb></lb>
was an Inhabitant legally Setled in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo534">St<lb></lb>
Mary Abchurch</rs>
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London And Saith that She is the rather<lb></lb>
Induced to believe her sd Husbands Declaration to be true<lb></lb>
for that the Minister & Churchwardens of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo535">Parish of St Mary</rs>
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Abchurch certifyed the sd Poston to be an Inhabitant of their sd parish<lb></lb>
And no other subsequent Settlement appearing unto us, we the said Justi-<lb></lb>
ces are of Opinion, and do adjudge the last legal Settlement of the said <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n469-7">Mary Poston</rs>
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to be in the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo536">St. Mary Abchurch</rs>
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And that thitherto she ought by Law to be sent</p>
<p n="470">These are therefore in his Majesty's Name, to Will and Require you<lb></lb>
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of St<lb></lb>
Michael at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo537">Queen hithe</rs>
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London, forthwith to remove and<lb></lb>
convey the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n470-2">Mary Poston</rs>
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from and out of your said Parish unto the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo538">Parish of St Mary</rs>
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Abchurch London<lb></lb>
And her deliver unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor<lb></lb>
there, or one of them, who is and are hereby required to receive and pro-<lb></lb>
vide for her according to Law. Given under our Hands, and Seals,<lb></lb>
this 17th Day of December in the Year of our Lord 17 36</p>
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