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Re: Wakefield Quarter Sessions translation
« Reply #9 on: Monday 18 August 25 13:02 BST (UK) »
Somewhat bizarrely, the Court Order microfilm in the WYAS is in the East Sussex Record Office (found through searching for "Hipperholme" in familysearch's excellent Full-Text Search experiment).

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSGG-B31W-R?view=fullText&keywords=Hipperholme%2CPoor%2Cpoor&lang=en&groupId=

Confirms it is a case of sending the poor back whence they came, rather than anything personal against Bryan. I am now disappointed!

Transcript:
Leeds13 July 1704
Upon an appeal against an order made by two of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said Riding for the removing of Isaac Walton with his wife or children from Norland To Hipperholme cum Brighouse ┃ It is ordered that the said Order be discharged & that the Overseers of the Poor of Norland aforesaid do upon sight hereof pay to the Overseers of the poor of Hipperholme cum Brighouse aforesaidd the sum of forty pounds ten Shillings for such a vexatious removal pursuant to the act of Parliament in that case made

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Re: Wakefield Quarter Sessions translation
« Reply #10 on: Monday 18 August 25 14:33 BST (UK) »
Good find. The extract that appears in your first post is from the sessions on 11 January 1704/05, not 1703/04, so the preceding Order was 13 July 1704.

The Order Book is indeed at WYAS, despite FamilySearch labelling it incorrectly as being at East Sussex Record Office. Here it is on Ancestry, under Wakefield Orders ...

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/6065/images/41414_1831109388_2708-00007

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Re: Wakefield Quarter Sessions translation
« Reply #11 on: Monday 18 August 25 15:53 BST (UK) »
Thank you once again Bookbox.