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Settlement Paper for John Vague, dated 15
January 1759
Cornwall to wit. To the Church-Wardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Luxillion in the said County
of Cornwall and to each and every of you to Remove and to convey
As also to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Withiell in the County of Cornwall aforesaid These to Receive
and Obey
WHEREAS Complaint has been made by you the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the
Poor of the Parish of Luxillion aforesaid, unto Us whose Hands and
Seals are hereunto set, Two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace (One being of
the Quorum) for the said County of Cornwall, That John Vague hath
lately intruded himself 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 likely to become chargeable there: And
whereas upon due Examination and Enquiry made into the premises by Us the said
Justices, and on the Oath of the said John Vague as otherwise it
appears unto us, and we accordingly adjudge, that the said John Vague is
likely to become Chargeable and that his last legal place of
Settlement was in the said Parish of Withiell where he ought
to be Removed, as the Law in that Case directs.
THESE are therefore, in His Majesty’s Name, to Order and Require you the
Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of Luxillion aforesaid, That
you, or some of you, do Forthwith Remove and Convey the said John Vague
from your said Parish of Luxillion to the Parish of Withiell
aforesaid, and him deliver to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the
Poor there, or some one of them together with this our 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 John Vague
into your said Parish of Withiell and provide for him as their
own Parishioner according to Law. Given under our Hands and Seals, the
Fifteenth Day of January in the Thirty second Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of God of
Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, and so forth, and in the Year of our
Lord, One thousand, Seven Hundred and Fifty nine
(signed & sealed) J. Fortescue
(signed & sealed) N. Trevanion
N.B. Words in italics are hand-written
insertions in a printed form. 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. 130/13/2/6
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