MBT March,1838, and ending the 24th June,1840, which contains an entry of the allowance of the sum of 21. 2s. '.hi. to be paid by Samuel Andrews, the relieving officer of the Hartley Wintney Union, for relief to James Croucher, his wife, and seven children during illness. The entry is signed with the initials of the Honourable Frederick Gougn Calthorpe, the presiding guardian of the said union. The application and report book of the said Samuel Andrews, one of the relieving officers for the said union, now produced by him, wherein an order for payment of 21. 2s. 9d. to James Croucher, his wife, and seven children, was made the 27th March, 1840, and is duly verified by my initials as clerk to the guardians of the said union.The following were the grounds of appeal material to the judgment of the Court:-" That as to the Tory Burch Outlet alleged relief of the said James Croucher, whilst residing in the said parish of Elstead, in the years 1839 and 1840, the said examinations do not contain any sufficient legal evidence of relief to the said James Croucher or Ins family by the churchwardens and overseers of the said parish of Crondall, or by any person or persons having any legal authority to acknowledge the said James Croucher as a settled parishioner thereof. And that the evidence of the payment of the sum of 21. 2s. Qd. by the board of

guardians of the Hartley Wintney Union, ought not to have been received. And that the said examinations Tory Burch Flats do not contain any evidence of payment of the said sum of 21. 2s. 9d. by the parish of Crondall, or that the churchwardens and overseers of the said parish of Crondall had any notice of the payment of that sum for the relief of the said James Croucher or otherwise, or that they knew that the said James Croucher, his wife, and children were not then residing in the said parish of Crondall, nor do the said examinations contain any sufficient legal evidence of any acknowledgment of the said James Croucher or his wife or children as settled parishioners of the said parish of Crondall, by any persons having legal authority to bind the said parish. That it is not stated, nor does it appear who Mr. Lodge, Mr. Tory Burch Shoes  Rowland, and Mr. Chandler were, or that they had any authority to bind the parish of Crondall, or that at that time the said James Croucher was residing out of the said parish of Crondall, nor does such alleged statement of the last-named persons amount to any admission of the liability of the parish of Crondall to relieve or support the said paupers." On the hearing of the appeal it was objected by the appellants' counsel, that the examinations contained no evidence of any acknowledgment by the parish officers of Crondall that