County of Somerset

To the Churchwardens and Others, the Overfeers of the Poor of the Parifh of Kingsbury Episcopi in the said County of Somerset to Convey: And to the Churchwardens and Overfeers of the Poor of the Parifh of Yeovil in the said County to Receive and Obey. Thefe.

WHEREAS Complaint has been made, by you the Churchwardens and Overfeers of the Poor of the Parifh of Kingsbury aforefaid, unto Us, whofe Hands and Seals are hereunto fet, two of her Majefty's Juftices of the Peace, in and for the County of Somerset aforefaid, (one of us of the Quorum,) that Ann MALE Singlewoman lately intruded herself into your faid parish of Kingsbury Episcopi there to Inhabit as a Parishioner contrary to the Laws relating to the Settlement of the Poor; and is become Chargeable to your faid Parifh of Kingsbury Episcopi.  We therefore upon due Examination and Enquiry made into the Premifes aforefaid, as well upon the Oath of the said Ann MALE now taken in writing on Oath before us as otherwise do find and adjudge the fame to be true: And we do alfo adjudge that the laft Place of the legal Settlement of her the faid Ann MALE was and is the Parifh of Yeovil aforefaid.  THESE are therefore in his Majefty's Name to Order and Require you the Churchwardens and Overfeers of the Poor of the Parish of Kingsbury Episcopi aforesaid, or fome, or one of you, forthwith to Remove and Convey her the faid Ann MALE from your faid parifh of Kingsbury Episcopi to the Parifh of Yeovil aforesaid, and her deliver to the Churchwardens and Overfeers of the Poor, or fome or one of them there, together with this our Order, or a true Copy thereof.  And you the Churchwardens and Overfeers of the Poor of the Parish of Yeovil aforefaid, are likewife hereby required in his Majefty's Name, to Receive and Provide for her the faid Ann MALE as an Inhabitant of your faid Parifh of Yeovil until from thence she fhall be difcharged by due Courfe of law.  Given under our Hands and Seals, the twenty second day of May in the Twenty forth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain , France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and fo forth, in the Year of our Lord One Thoufend, Seven hundred and Eighty four.

[Printed by A. Crocker, Ilminfter.]

 

Wm. SPEKE

Jno. HANNING?