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Settlement Papers for John Rickard and family, dated
17 November 1820
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 Landrake 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 John Rickard
Husbandman Elizabeth Rickard his wife William Rickard aged about nine
years and nine months John Rickard aged about one year and two months
their children have come to inhabit in the said Parish of
Sheviock not having gained a legal Settlement nor produced any
Certificate, owning them to be settled elsewhere and that the said
John Rickard Elizabeth Rickard his wife William Rickard and John Rickard
their children are actually chargeable to the said Parish of
Sheviock in the said County of Cornwall
We the said Justices upon due proof made thereof, as well upon
Examination of the said John Rickard 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 John Rickard Elizabeth Rickard his wife William Rickard
and John Rickard their children is in the said Parish of Landrake
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 John Rickard
Elizabeth Rickard his wife William Rickard and John Rickard their
children from out of your said Parish of Sheviock in the said
County of Cornwall to the said Parish of Landrake in the said
County of Cornwall 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 order you, the said Churchwardens and
Overseers of the the Poor of the said Parish of Landrake to
receive and provide for them as Inhabitants of your said Parish
Given under our Hands and Seals, the Seventeenth Day of November in the
first year of the Reign of His said Majesty George the forth and in the
Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty
Wm Little (seal)
Sr V I Arundell (seal)
It appearing to Us, whose Names are hereunto set,
two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County, (and who
have made the within Order) that the within named John Rickard is
very ill and confined to his bed and is unfit to be removed by
reason of such illness as further appears by the Certificate of
Thomas Wright the Surgeon who has attended him and that it would be
dangerous for him to be removed. We therefore, in pursuance of an Act of
Parliament made and passed in the Fifty-first Year of His present
Majesty’s Reign, intituled “An Act to prevent the Removal of Poor
Persons until they shall become actually chargeable”, do hereby, by
Virtue of the Power given to us in and by the said Act of Parliament,
suspend the Execution of the said Order until we are satisfied that it
may safely be executed.
Witness our Hands, this Seventeenth Day of November 1820
Wm Little
Sr V I Arundell
Whereas it duly appears unto Us, the Justices who
suspended the Execution of the within Order, for the Reason in such
Suspension mentioned, that the within named now able to travel and be
removed without Danger, We do therefore hereby grant our Permission for
the Execution of the within Order, pursuant to the Statute in such Case
made. And we do hereby order and direct the Churchwardens and Overseers
of the Poor of the within named Parish of (blank) to pay unto the
Churchwardens and Overseers Poor of the within named Parish of
(blank) the sum of (blank) being the amount of the Charges
proved upon Oath to have been incurred by the Suspension of the said
Order.
Witness our Hands, the (blank) Day (blank) of 18(blank)
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