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Settlement Paper for Ann Burke, dated 14 March 1822
(A pre-printed form with hand-written
insertions)
CORNWALL (to wit)
To the Churchwardens, and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Antony
Saint Jacob in the said County of Cornwall and to the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Sheviock in the County of
Cornwall and to each and every of them.
Upon the Complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of Antony Saint Jacob 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 Ann Burke widow of the late George
Burke has come to inhabit in the said Parish of Antony Saint Jacob not
having gained a legal Settlement nor produced any Certificate, owning
her to be settled elsewhere and that the said Ann Burke is actually
chargeable to the said Parish of Antony Saint Jacob We the said Justices
upon due proof made thereof, as well upon Examination of the said Ann
Burke upon Oath, as otherwise, and likewise upon due consideration had
of the Premises, to adjudge the same to be true ; and we do likewise
adjudge that the last
lawful Settlement of the said Ann Burke is in the said Parish of
Sheviock in the said County of Cornwall
We do therefore require you the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the
Poor in the said
Parish of Antony Saint Jacob in the said County of Cornwall or some, or
one of you, to convey the said Ann Burke from out of your said Parish of
Antony Saint Jacob to the said Parish of Sheviock and her to deliver to
the Churchwardens 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 them the Original ; and we do also hereby require you, the
said Churchwardens and Overseers of the the Poor of the said Parish of
Sheviock to receive and provide for her as an Inhabitants of your said
Parish
Given under our Hands and Seals, the fourteenth Day of March in the
third year of the
Reign of His said Majesty George the fourth and in the Year of our Lord
One Thousand Eight
Hundred and twenty two
…..Glanville (seal)
Wm Little (seal)
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