Upon the appeal of the inhabitants of the Township of Coppull in the said County to the Order made by Thomas Baldwin and Nicholas Rigbye Baldwin Clerks two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace and Quorum in and for the said County under their Hands and Seals bearing date the eight day of January for the Removal of Henry Bentham and Betty his Wife and Nancy aged six years, Betty aged three years and Henry aged three months their Children poor persons out of the Township of Standish with Langtree in the said County into the Township of Coppull aforesaid on full hearing of both the said Townships and for Settlement of them in Coppull aforesiad is by this Court.... ratified and confirmed subject to the Opinion of the Court of King's Bench upon the following Case -
Case
The Respondents proved by the Evidence of the pauper that his father many years ago purchased a small Estate for less than thirty pounds a year in the Township of Coppull and occupied it himself for about five years during which time the pauper was part of his father's family and that the pauper's father during his occupation of the Estated actually paid the parish Rates and Assessments in respect of his Estate but the Respondents did not produce any Rates or Assessments and had not given any notice for the production of the Assessments or Rates. The Appellants objected that without the production of the Assessments or Rates or having given notice to produce them there was no legal or proper Evidence that the pauper's father was charged with the same.
J Scarlett - for the Respondents
J Cross - for the Appellants
