FR2/10/1/29

Mss Advice re Settling of Poor (Issued by B. Bealing)

18 Aug 1710

From: 1710 To: 1710

If poor friend wishes to move, must apply to QM/MM, if approve issue a certificate if accept & receive collection for the poor-deemed settlement. If 3 yrs behaving acc to truth (& not contrib to poor (collection) also deemed settlement Servant men/maids bringing certificate, lived for 1 yr, then belong to meeting If without certificate, chargeable to former meeting above to continue for FOUR years Jn Field undertaken to print Dying sayings of Friends as Jn Tomkin had done before + Letter from B. Bealing to Jn Chester No note of discharge of that great sufferer Wm Francis (Sent to Jn Chester, Baker of Dunstable)

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Bealing, Benjamin,
Field, John,
Tomkin, John,
Chester, John,
Francis, William

Society of Friends, Society of Friends individuals, Settlement, servant, DUNSTABLE