To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of Kettering in the County of Northampton and to the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Desborough in the County of Northampton and to each and every of
them.
County of Northampton to wit.
Whereas Complaint hath been made unto us,
whose Names are hereunto set and Seals affixed, being Two of Her
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of
Northampton (one whereof being of the Quorum) by the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of
Kettering
That Joseph Robinson and Mary his wife and their two Children
Thomas aged four years or thereabouts and Alfred aged Eighteen
Months or thereabouts.
have come to inhabit and are now inhabiting in the said
Parish of Kettering, not having resided in the said Parish for
Five Years next before the Application for this Warrant, and not
having gained a legal settlement there, nor having produced any
Certificate acknowledging them to be settled elsewhere, and that
they are now actually chargeable to the same Parish and now
receiving Relief therefrom, and that the Parish of Desborough is
the place of their last legal Settlement: We,
the said Justices, upon due Proof thereof as well by Examination
of Witnesses, to wit, of the said Joseph Robinson upon
Oath, as otherwise, and upon due consideration of the Premises,
do adjudge the same to be true, and that the place of the last
legal Settlement of the said Joseph Robinson and Mary his Wife
and Thomas and Alfred their Children is in the said Parish of
Desborough in the said County of Northampton.
These are therefore, in Her Majesty's Name,
to require and Order that if within Twenty-one Days after you,
the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish of Kettering shall have sent by Post or otherwise, unto
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish
of Desborough a Notice in Writing of the said Joseph Robinson
and Mary his Wife and Thomas and Alfred his Children being so
chargeable as aforesaid, together with a Copy or Counterpart of
this Order, and a Copy of the Examination on which this Order is
made, no Notice of Appeal against this Order shall be given by
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish
of Desborough,
or if Notice of Appeal shall be given within the Twenty-one
Days aforesaid, then forthwith after the time for prosecuting
such Appeal shall have expired (if the same be not duly
prosecuted), or in case the same shall be duly prosecuted, then
forthwith after the final determination of the same, if this
Order shall thereupon be confirmed, you the said Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Kettering or
some or one of you, or some proper person or persons to be
employed by you, do remove and convey the said
Joseph Robinson and Mary his Wife and Thomas and Alfred their
children
from and out of your said Parish of Kettering to the said
Parish of Desborough and them deliver, together with this our
Order or a Duplicate or true Copy thereof, unto the Overseers of
the Poor there, or one of them, who are hereby required to
receive and provide for them according to Law.
Given under our Hands and Seals, at Kettering in the said
County of Northampton, the eleventh Day of December, in the Year
of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty six.
Geoffrey Palmer
W B Stopford