Middlesex Sessions:
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February 1772

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Middlesex


At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the
County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the said County
(by adjournment) on Thursday the Twentyeth day of February in the Twelfth
year of the Regin of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great
Britain Etc before Saunders Welch< no role > . Benjamin Cowley< no role > . John Spencer Colepeper< no role >
William Shakespear< no role > and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the
King assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King in the County
aforesaid and also to hear and determins divers Felonies Trespasses
and other Misdemeanors committed in the same County

Whereas the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Saint Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex Have at this present Session
exhibited their Petition and Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of a Pass
Warrant or Order under the Hands and Seals of two of His Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex (one whereof being of the Quorum)
bearing date the 7th.. day of February instant Catherine Smith< no role > single Woman
was removed and Conveyed from the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
in the said County to the said Parish of Saint Giles in the Fields as the Place
of her last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves
to be aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal in the presence and
hearing of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish
of Saint Leonard Shoreditch and they Consenting by Council to the
Allowing of the said Appeal It is Ordered that the said Appeal be
and the same is hereby Allowed and the said Pass Warrant or Order of the
said two Justices is hereby Vacated and set aside And It is further Ordered
that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint
Giles in the Fields Do forthwith Convey and deliver back the said Catherine
Smith
< no role > (together with a Copy of this Order) unto the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch or to
same or one of them who are hereby required to Receive and provide for the said
Catherine Smith< no role > until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due
course of Law

By the Court




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