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Settlement Order for Mary Phinnimore, dated 2 July 1796

CORNWALL to wit
To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Egloskerry in the said County of Cornwall and to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Treneglos in the said County of Cornwall and to each and every one of them.
 
Upon the Complaint of the Church-Wardens and the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Egloskerry aforesaid in the said County of Cornwall unto us whose Names are hereunto set, and Seals affixed, being two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Cornwall and one of us of the Quorum that Mary Phinnimore singlewoman hath come to inhabit in the said Parish of Egloskerry not having gained a legal Settlement there, nor produced any Certificate owning her to be settled elsewhere and that the said Mary Phinnimore is chargeable to the said Parish of Egloskerry. We the said Justices upon due Proof made thereof, as well upon the Examination of the said Mary Phinnimore upon Oath, as otherwise, and likewise upon due Consideration had of the Premises, do adjudge the same to be true : And we do likewise adjudge that the last lawful Settlement of the said Mary Phinnimore is in the Parish of Treneglos in the said County of Cornwall. We do therefore require you the said Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Egloskerry or some, or one of you, to convey the said Mary Phinnimore from and out of your said Parish of Egloskerry to the said Parish of Treneglos and deliver her to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor there, or to some, or one of them, together with this our Order, or a true Copy thereof, at the same Time shewing to them the Original; and we do also hereby require you the said Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Treneglos to receive her as an Inhabitant of your said Parish.
 
Given under our Hands and Seals the second Day of July in the thirty sixth Year of the Reign of his said Majesty King GEORGE the Third, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety six.
 

(signed) ?---- Rodd (sealed)
(signed) W. Carpenter (sealed)

  
N.B.
Words in italics are inserts in a pre-printed form, those in italics and brackets are inserted by the transcriber.
Source: LDS Film No. 1596549

Contributed by Sue Mutton (OPC for Menheniot)
 

 
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