EDMONDS, Samuel + Honor SE/RO Isle Abbotts to Church Oakley Ham

1833 PS/ILM 6/28 34

County of Somerset

To the Churchwardens and others, the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Isle Abbotts in the County aforesaid, to convey, and to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Church Okeley in the county of Hants to receive and obey. These.

WHEREAS Complaint has been made by you the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of <blank> aforesaid, unto us, whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set, two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Somerset aforesaid, (whereof one is of the Quorum,) that Samuel EDMONDS and Honor his wife have lately intruded themselves into your said parish of Isle Abbotts there to inhabit as Parishioners contrary to the Laws relating to the Settlement of the Poor; and are become chargeable to your said Parish of Isle Abbotts

We therefore upon due Examination and Enquiry made into the Premises aforesaid, and on the Oath of the said Samuel EDMONDS this day taken before us in writing or otherwise, do find and adjudge the same to be true: And we do also adjudge that the last place of the legal settlement of them the said Samuel EDMONDS and Honor his wife was and is in the parish of Church Okeley aforesaid.

THESE are therefore in his Majesty's name, to order and require you the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the Parish of Isle Abbotts aforesaid, that you, some, or one of you, do forthwith remove and convey them the said Samuel EDMONDS and Honor his wife from your said parish of Isle Abbotts to the Parish of Church Okeley aforesaid, and them deliver to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor or some or one of them there, together with this our order, or a true copy thereof.

AND you the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Church Okeley aforesaid, are likewise hereby required in his Majesty's name, to receive and provide for them the said Samuel EDMONDS and Honor his wife as Inhabitants of your said Parish of Church Okeley until from thence they shall be discharged by due course of law.  Given under our Hands and Seals, the fifth day of August in the fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign lord GEORGE the forth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty three.