order, the sum of

for and towards the sustentation, relief, maintenance, and support of the said for and during so long a time as the said shall be chargeable to the said parish of T., or until the said shall be legally directed to the contrary; which said order having been disobeyed and complaint thereof made to A. B. and C. D., esquires, two of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county of on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, at a petty sessions then held at in the said county of by and upon the oath of one of the overseers of the poor of the said parish of T., they the said last-mentioned justices did then and there issue their warrant to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish of T., to levy the said penalty (being the sum of ) by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of him the said and to apply the same according to law. And whereas it duly appears unto us, A. B. and C. D., esquires, two of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county at a petty sessions held at in the said county of

of this

aforesaid,

day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundres and twenty as well upon the oath of E. F., one of the overseers of the poor of the said parish of as otherwise, that he the said overseer of the poor has used his best endeavours to levy the said sum on the goods of him the said as aforesaid, but that no sufficient distress can be had whereon to lery the same: these are therefore to command you, the said constable of to apprehend the body of the said gaol of the said county of and there deliver him to the said keeper thereof, together with this precept. And ve do hereby command you, the said keeper of the said common gaol, to receive into your custody, in the said common gaol, the said and him there safely to kerp without bail or mainprize, till the said forfeitures shall be paid; and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.

at

and him safely to convey to the common in the said county last-mentioned,

Given under our hands and seals at T. aforesaid, the
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

day of

A. B. (L. S.) C. D. (L. S.)

County
to wit.
Whereas it appears unto us, whose names are hereunto set and seals affixed, twe
of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, as well upon the complaint
and application of the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of I.
aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, as upon due proof upon oath before us made, that
late of the parish of T. aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, yeoman, hath
gone away from his place of abode, at
in the parish aforesaid, in
some other county or place, and hath left Anne, his wife, and L. M., of the age
of
years, and N. M. of the age of
years, their children, up
the charge of the parish of T. aforesaid, the place of their last legal settlement,
and that the said
hath some estate whereby to ease the said parish
their said charge, in whole or in part: we do hereby authorise and command you, the
said churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of T. aforesaid, "
take and seize
of his goods and chattels, and to recei
so much [specify the sum] of the annual rents and profits of the lands an
tenements of him the said
at T. aforesaid [if the order extend to lands
then say,
"until further order made"], for and towards the discharge of the
parish, for providing for his said wife and bringing up and maintaining of his sa
children: and with this warrant you are to appear at the next quarter sessions of the
peace to be holden for the said county, and certify then and there what you shal
have done in the execution hereof.

To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of T..
in the said county.

of

and

Given under our hands and seals, at

in the year

in the said county, the

A. B. (L. S.)
C. D. (L. S.)

Form of assignment of pay by a pensioner, under the 59 Geo. III. c. 12, s. 29. (See form, ante, 180).

(a) See another form, ante, 171.

I [naming the pensioner or other applicant; and stating such particulars as shall be requisite] do hereby assign to the heritors and kirk session of the parish of G., the next payment of the pension at the rate of be] granted to me as

and payable from

said parish of G. the repayment of the sum of weekly sum of

per

diem [or as the case may in order to secure to the advanced to me [or, of the

ordered or agreed to be advanced to me, as the case may be]

by such heritors and kirk session.

Signed by the above named

before me one of his Majesty's jus-
tices of the peace for

day of

this A. B.

one

thousand eight hundred and thirty.

We the undersigned, being two of the churchwardens and overseers of the parish
of P. in the county of
do hereby certify that A. B. is an out-pensioner of

the Royal Hospital of Chelsea, from the
per diem, and that he is now alive and residing at

regiment of

at

in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

Churchwardens.

Overseers.

[The days on which the several quarterly payments become due are as follows: viz. the twenty-fifth of March, the twenty-fifth of June, the twenty-ninth of September, and the twenty-fifth of December.]

To the Owner, Ship's Husband, or Agent of the Ship or Vessel [as it may be]. County of Whereas, complaint on oath hath been made before us, two of his Majesty's justices of the peace acting in and for the county of by the to wit. churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of T., in the county of aforesaid, that C. B., the wife of A. B., and their two children, to wit, [naming the children,] have become chargeable to the said parish of T. And whereas it hath been made appear to us, that the said A. B., is now employed in the actual service of N. O., on board the Ranger, on a voyage to the East Indies, and that, since his departure, the overseers of the said parish of T. have necessarily laid out and expended, in the maintenance and support of the wife and family of the said A. B., the sum of We do, therefore, order and direct you, the said owner, &c. [as it may be], forthwith, on receipt hereof, to pay unto the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of T., aforesaid, or to such one of them as shall demand the same, the said sum of out of the wages which are, or shall become due to the said A. B., in discharge of the said money so expended in the maintenance and support of the said C. B., his said wife, and their said family; and the receipt of such churchwarden or overseer shall be to you a good and sufficient discharge for the said sum of hereby directed to be paid for the purpose aforesaid.

Given under our hands and seals, this Lord one thousand eight hundred and

day of

in the year of our

W. R.
E. R. M.

(L. S.)
(L. S.)

County of To the Right Honourable the Commissioners for the Affairs of the

Whereas, complaint upon oath hath been made unto us, two of his Majesty's jus

tices of the peace acting in and for the said county of
warden and overseer of the poor of the parish of
late a soldier in the

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76. Order by justices to overseers, &c., to receive pensions of persons leaving their families chargeable to the parish.

per

of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, from the said regiment, at the rate of
diem, hath suffered his wife and family to become chargeable to the said parish of
per week.
and that they are now maintained at the expence of
We do, therefore, hereby order and direct that the next payment of the pension
which shall become due to the said
and payable by the Right Honourable the
Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital (a), shall be made to the churchwardens and over-
seers of the poor of the said parish of
agreeably to the provisions of an act of
parliament passed the 59th year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled,“ An Act
to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor."

Given under our hands and seals this

Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

day of

in the year of our

To the Commissioners of the Affairs of the Royal Hospitals of Chelsea or Greenwich [or, the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance, as may be].

and that

County of Whereas, complaint on oath hath been made before us, two of his Majesty's
by the
justices of the peace acting in and for the county of
to wit.
churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of T., in the
said county of
that A. B., late of the said parish of T., hath deserted
his wife and family, whereby they have become chargeable to the said parish of T.
And whereas it duly appears unto us, that the said A. B. is entitled to receive of ani
from
a certain annual allowance or pension, amounting to
no assignment of the said pension hath been made by the said A. B. to the said church-
wardens and overseers for the support and maintenance of the wife and family of the
said A. B. Now the said W. R. and E. R. M., the justices aforesaid, do hereby, w
pursuance of the statute in that case made and provided, order and direct that the
next payment of the said pension or allowance due to the said A. B. shall be paid by
you, the said commissioners, &c. [as it may be], to the churchwardens and over
seers of the poor of the said parish of T., or to one of them, to be by them retained and
applied, in part or in total, to the discharge of such sum or sums of money as the
may have expended in the support and maintenance of the wife and family of the said
A. B., rendering the overplus [if any] unto the said A. B., or to such other pers
as he shall duly authorize to receive the same.

Given under our hands and seals, this
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

day of

in the year of our

W. R.

(L S.) E. R. M. (L. S.)

77. Warrant to apprehend a person as a rogue and vagabond, having deserted his family.

78. Conviction and commit

ment of a person as a rogue and vagabond, for having deserted his family.

To all Constables, and others his Majesty's Officers of the Peace, for the

County of

to wit.

county of

us

Forasmuch as A. B., one of the overseers of the poor of the parish of in the said county, hath this day made information and complaint spon and one [or two"] of oath before me Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county, that C. D., late of in the said county, shoemaker, hath run away and left his wife and children, whereby they are become chargeable to the said parish of and thereby committed a act of vagrancy. These are, therefore, to command you, in his said Majesty's name forthwith to apprehend and bring before me the body of the said C. D., to anser unto the said complaint, and to be further dealt withal according to law. Heren fail you not.

Given under my hand and seal [or our hands and seals], the in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty

County of Be it remembered, that on the

to wit.

year of the reign of our sovereign lord George the Fourth, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundra and A. B., constable of the parish of in the county of bringeth before me W. R., esquire, one of the justices of our said lord the king. assigned to keep the peace of our said lord the king, in and for the said county, as

(a) The days on which the usual quarterly payments become due, are the 25th

of March, 25th of June, the 25th of September, and the 25th of December.

and

parish of parish of

also to hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses, and other misdemeanors in the
said county, committed the body of C. D., and chargeth and accuseth him, the said
C. D., before me, the said justice, of being a rogue and vagabond, within the intent
and meaning of the statute made and passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of
King George the Second, intituled, "An Act to amend and make more effectual the
laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons, and to
Houses of Correction," for that he, the said C. D., hath run away and left his wife
children, whereby they have become chargeable to the parish of
in the county aforesaid, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and
provided, and thereupon he, the said A. B., prayeth of me, the said justice, that the
said C. D. may be dealt with according to law for his said offence; whereupon the
said C. D. is now asked by me, the said justice, if he can say any thing for himself,
why he, the said C. D., should not be convicted of the offence above charged upon
him, in form aforesaid, who pleadeth that he is not guilty thereof: Whereupon I, the
said justice, do now proceed to examine into the truth of the complaint so brought by
the said A. B. against the said C. D., and thereupon, on the day and year first afore-
said, at the parish of
in the county aforesaid, E. F., churchwarden of the
aforesaid, and G. H., one of the overseers of the poor of the said
credible witnesses in that behalf, on their corporal oath upon the
holy Evangelists of God, now here duly administered to them respectively, by me, the
said justice, in the presence and hearing of the said C. D., depose and say, that the
said C. D. hath run away and left his wife and
children, whereby they have
become chargeable to the parish of aforesaid; and he, the said C. D., having
heard the said evidence, and being asked by me, the said justice, if he can say any
thing for himself, or show any cause before me why he should not be convicted of the
offence so charged upon him as aforesaid, doth not say any thing for himself, or offer
evidence to gainsay the same; therefore it manifestly appeareth to me, the said
justice, that the said C. D. is guilty of the offence above charged upon him, in manner
and form as in and by the said complaint is alleged, and that he is thereby a rogue
and vagabond, within the true intent and meaning of the said statute. It is, therefore,
adjudged by me, the said justice, that the said C. D. be convicted of the said offence,
and he is hereby, by me, accordingly convicted of the said offence so charged upon
him in and by the said complaint, and adjudged to be a rogue and vagabond within
the intent and meaning of the statute aforesaid. And I do order the said C. D. to
be sent, and the said C. D. is by me accordingly committed, to the house of correction
in the said county, there to remain until the next general quarter sessions
of the peace to be held in and for the said county, then and there to be further dealt
with according to law, unless he be sooner discharged by due course of law, according
to the form of the statute in such case made and provided. In testimony whereof, I,
the said justice, to this record of conviction have put my hand and seal, at
the county aforesaid, on the day and year first above written.

any

at

in

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W. R. (L. S.)

in the county

79. Commitment of a per

To the Governor or Keeper of the House of Correction at County of Receive into your custody the body of A. B. of

of

herewith sent you, brought before me W. R., esquire, one to wit. of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, and charged before me by C. D., overseer of the poor of the parish of upon oath with being an incorrigible rogue, for that he the said A. B. being adjudged a rogue and vagabond, and thereof convicted by me the said W. R., and committed to the house of correction for having deserted his wife and children, and leaving them chargeable to the said parish of hath since the said conviction and commitment, again deserted his said wife and children, and left them chargeable to the said parish of by reason whereof he the said A. B. hath become an incorrigible rogue, within the intent and meaning of the statute made and passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of George the Second, intituled," An Act to amend and make more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues and Vagabonds, and to other idle and disorderly Persons, and to Houses of Correction," of which offence he the said A. B. hath been convicted by me the said justice, and him the said A. B. safely keep in your custody until he shall be discharged by due course of law, and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.

Given under my hand and seal, this hundred and

day of

one thousand eight

son as an incor

rigible rogue
for having de-
serted his family
a second time.

W. R. (L. S.)

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relief and ordering of poor.

89. Warrant to apprehend a person for not applying a proportion of his earnings to

wards the main tenance of his family.

To all Constables, and others his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said whom these may concern.

the

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county of

County of These are in his Majesty's name, to command you and every of you, upon
sight thereof, to take and bring before me, or some other of his Majesty's
to wit.
justices of the peace in and for the said county, city, and liberty, the
body of A.B., to answer to all such matters and things as on his Majesty's behalf are on
oath objected against him by E.B., his wife, and also by C. D., one of the overseers of
poor of the parish of for permitting, by his wilful default and neglect, his
said wife and children to become chargeable to the said parish, spending his
money in ale-houses, and not employing a proper proportion of the money earned by
him towards the maintenance of his said wife and children, against the statule
in that case made and provided. Herein fail not at your peril.
Given under my hand and seal at
in the county aforesaid, this
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

day of

W. R. (L. S.)

81. Order to seize the goods and receive the rents of houses or lands, of persons deserting

their families.

County of Whereas, it appears unto us whose names are hereunto set and seals affixed,
two of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, as wel
to wit.
upon the complaint and application of the churchwardens and overseers
of the poor of the parish of
in the said county, that C. D., late of the
parish of aforesaid, yeoman, hath gone away from his place of abode at
in the parish aforesaid, into some other county or place, and hath left his wife,
S. and his two children, M. aged three years, and P. aged two years or thereabouts,
chargeable to the said parish of
the place of their last legal settlement; and
that the said C. D. hath an estate situate at
consisting of two freehold
dwellings [or as it may be]: whereby to ease the said parish of the said charg
in whole or in part, we do hereby authorize and command you, the said churchwar
dens and overseers of the poor of the said parish of
[describe the property] of his goods and chattels, and to receive so much in the sum
of £
of the annual rents and profits of the lands and tenements of him
the said C. D. at
aforesaid, [if the order is to receive the rents of land, say,
"until further order made,"] for and towards the discharging of the said parish for
the providing for and bringing up of his said wife and children; and with this war
rant you are to appear at the next quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the
said county, that this order may be then and there confirmed, according to the direc
tions of the statute in that case made and provided.

Given under our hands and seals at

to take and s

in the said county, the

W. R.
(L. S.
E. R. M. (L. S.

in the county of

32. Usual form

of oath by a pau.

to wit.

per requiring relief.

labourer, maketh oath that he is very poor and impotent and not ab

to work (a), and not able to provide for himself and his family, and that therefore, he, the said A. B., Las', did apply for relief to C. D. and E. F., overseers of the poor of the said parish, and was by them refused to be relieved.