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Settlement Document for Thomas Perry, dated 2 July 1833
 

Removal Order, Thomas Perry from Blisland to Little Petherick 1833
 
At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King held at Bodmin in and for the said County the second day of July in the Fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth 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 1833 before John Hearle Tremayne Richard Gully Bennet Esquires.
And others their companions Justices of our Said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in and for the said County. And also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other misdemeanors committed within the said county.
Upon the continued appeal of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Blisland in the said County, from and against an order bearing date the fifth day of March last past under the hand and seals of Richard Gully Bennet Esquire and William Molesworth Clerk. two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace of and for the said County for the Removal of Thomas Perry from the parish of Little Petherick in the said County to the said Parish of Blisland And upon hearing what could be alledged and proved upon Oath on either side, It is ordered by this Court and this Court doth adjudge that the said Order be: and the same is hereby on the merits reversed and discharged and that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Blisland some or one of them, do take and carry the said Thomas Perry from the said Parish of Blisland to the said Parish of Little Petherick and him delived (sic) to the churchwardens and overseers of the Poor there, some or one of them who are hereby required to receive him into their said parish and there provide for him as their own parishioner And it is further ordered, that the churchwardens and overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Little Petherick some or one of them do / on Notice of this Order / pay unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Blisland some or one of them the sum of Nine pounds – as and for their costs in prosecuting the said appeal and maintenance of the said Pauper.

By the Court         ?-------? / Clerk of the Peace

 

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