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Settlement Papers for Temperance Mannear, dated 17 July 1764
Cornwall to wit. To the Church-Wardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Luxillion in the said County to
Remove and Convey
And to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Tywardreath in the County aforesaid to Receive and Obey
WHEREAS Complaint hath been made by you the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the
Poor of the said Parish of Luxillion unto Us whose Hands and Seals are
hereunto set, two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace (whereof one is of the
Quorum) for the County aforesaid, That Temperance Mannear Spinster
now Aged about sixty one years hath lately intruded herself into
your said Parish of Luxillion there to inhabit as a Parishioner
contrary to the Laws relating to the Settlement of the Poor, and is there like
to become Chargeable if not timely prevented: and whereas, upon due Examination
and Enquiry made into the Premises, as well upon the Oath of the said
Temperance Mannear as otherwise it appears unto us, and we accordingly
adjudge, That the said Temperance Mannear is like to become chargeable
unto the said Parish of Luxillion and that the last legal place of
Settlement of the said Temperance Mannear is in the said Parish of
Tywardreath
These are therefore, in His Majesty’s Name, to order and require you the said
Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Luxillion
aforesaid, that you, or some of you, do forthwith remove and convey the said
Temperance Mannear from your said Parish of Luxillion to the said
Parish of Tywardreath, and her deliver to the Church-Wardens
and Overseers of the Poor there, or some or one of them, together with this our
Warrant or Order, or a true Copy hereof; whereby they are likewise required in
His Majesty’s Name and by Virtue of the Statutes in such Case made, forthwith to
receive the said Temperance Mannear into their said Parish and
provide for her as their own Parishioner. Given under our Hands and
Seals, the Seventeenth Day of July in the Year our Lord, one Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty four
(signed & sealed) J. Fortescue
(signed & sealed) N. Trevanion
(Written on a separate piece of paper, with no CRO Ref –
"Sent Pauper Manear to Tywardreath the 28th of July 1764")
N.B. Words in italics are handwritten
insertions in a printed document. Those in both italics and brackets are
inserted by the transcriber e.g. (signed). Spellings are as
found.
Source: LDS Film No. 1596594, CRO Ref DDP. 130/13/2/8
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