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To the Constables of the Parish of Budock in the said
County, and to all high and petty Constables in the
same.
Whereas SARAH THOMAS of the Borough of Penryn in the
said County single Woman, hath, by her voluntary
Examination taken in Writing upon Oath before me PETER
BOWN HARRIS Esquire one of his Majesty’s Justices of the
Peace in and for the said County this present Day
declared herself to be with Child, and that the said
Child is likely to be born a Bastard, and likely to be
chargeable to the Parish of Budock in the said County
and that EDMUND LAKEMAN of the said Borough of Penryn in
the said County Labourer did beget the said Child on the
Body of her the said SARAH THOMAS And whereas JOHN BONE
one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Budock
aforesaid, in Order to indemnify the said Parish in the
Premises, hath applied to me to issue my Warrant for the
apprehending of the said
EDMUND LAKEMAN and to bring him before me or some other
of his said Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said
County to find Security to indemnify the said Parish of
Budock or else to find sufficient Surety for his
Appearance at the next General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace to be holden for the said County then and there to
abide and perform such Order or Orders as shall be made,
in Pursuance of an Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of
the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth,
concerning Bastards begotten and born out of lawful
Matrimony. Given under my Hand and Seal the seventeenth
Day of October in the Year of our Lord one Thousand
eight hundred and sixteen.
(Signed) P.B. HARRIS (and sealed)
On the Reverse:
| Borough of Penryn |
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| in the County of Cornwall |
I permit the with . . . . (paper torn)
be executed within . . . (paper torn)
(Signed) Wm. Baker Junr. Justice
Written at bottom of page (upside down):
Mr. John Bone Mr. Redman?
Henry Spry? - Hall John Bown
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