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Settlement Paper for Elizabeth Hambly and son Richard, dated 6 June 1828

(Document 1)
CORNWALL (to wit)
To the Churchwardens, and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Sheviock in the said County of Cornwall and to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Luxulian in the said 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 Sheviock 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 Elizabeth Hambly and her infant child Richard Hambly aged about two months have come to inhabit in the said Parish of Sheviock in the said County of Cornwall not having gained a legal Settlement nor produced any Certificate, owning them to be settled elsewhere and that the said Elizabeth Hambly and her said infant child are actually chargeable to the said Parish of Sheviock aforesaid We the said Justices upon due proof made thereof, as well upon Examination of the said Elizabeth Hambly 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 Elizabeth Hambly and her said infant child is in the said Parish of Luxulian in the said County of Cornwall
 
We do therefore require you the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor in the said Parish of Sheviock in the said County of Cornwall or some, or one of you, to convey the Said Elizabeth Hambly and her said infant child from out of your said Parish of Sheviock in the said County of Cornwall to the said Parish of Luxulian and them 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 Luxulian to receive and provide for them as Inhabitants of your said Parish
 
Given under our Hands and Seals, the Sixth Day of June in the ninth year of the Reign of His said Majesty George the forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty eight

 (signed) Wm Little (seal)
 (signed) ?--ary (seal)

 
N.B. Words in italics are inserts in a pre-printed form
Words in both italics and brackets are inserted by the transcriber e.g. (signed)
Source:-
LDS Film No. 1596594

Contributed by Fred Hancock

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