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To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and other his Majesties
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Justices of the Peace for the
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That by Virtue of an Order of Removal under the Hands and
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Seals of
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aforesaid (One being of the Quorum)
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Abraham Lowden
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aged two years and
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William James
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aged five Weeks were Removed from
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as the place of the last legal Settlement of
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the said Mary and her said two Children
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Therefore your Petitioners are advised and Believe that the
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last legal Settlement of the said Mary and her said two Children is not
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in the said
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as by the said Order is Supposed
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and therefore they Conceive themselves to be Aggrieved by the said
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Order and Determination of the said Two Justices and Do humbly
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Appeal to your Worships against the same
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Your Petitioners therefore as well on the past and behalf
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of themselves as the other Inhabitants and Parishioners
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of the said
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Do humbly pray that
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the said Order of Removal of the said Mary and her and
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two Children may be Quashed And that your
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Petitioners may be further and otherwise Relieved
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in the premises as to your Worships shall seem
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meet
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And your Petitioners will ever Pray Etc.
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Major Wright
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Sollicitor for the Appellants
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