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Know all Men by these presents that I ZEBULEN SAUNDERS
of the parish of Budock in the County of Cornwall
Labourer am held and firmly bound unto SAMUEL TRESIDDER
and MATTHEW ALLISON Churchwardens, and JOHN ADAMS and
RICHARD LAWRANCE Overseers of the Poor of the said
parish of Budock and County aforesaid (In trust for the
Parishioners of the said Parish) in the sum of Forty
pounds of Good and Lawfull money of Great Britain to be
paid to the said Churchwardens and Overseers or their
certain Attorney their Executors Administrators or
Assignes to which payment well and truly to be made I
bind myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators and
every of them firmly by these presents. Sealed with my
Seale and Dated the fourth day of March In the twenty
fifth year of the Reign of our Soveregn Lord George the
third King of Great Britain and so forth and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty five.
The Condition of this Obligation is such that whereas
MARY TREVEN(A?) of the parish of Budock aforesaid,
single woman hath in an by her Voluntary Examination
taken in writing and upon Oath before WILLIAM HENRY
REYNELL one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in
and for the said County of Cornwall declared that she is
with Child of one or more Child or Children and that
such Child or Children is or are likely to be Born a
Bastard or Bastards and to be Chargeable to the said
parish of Budock and that the above bounden ZEBULEN
SANDERS is the father of such Child or Children. If
therefore the said ZEBULEN SANDERS his Heirs Executors
or Administrators do and shall from time to time and at
all times hereafter fully and Clearly indemnify and save
harmless as well the above named Churchwardens and
Overseers of the poor of the said parish of Budock and
their successors for the time being as also all and
singular the other Parishioners and Inhabitants of the
said parish of Budock which now are or hereafter shall
be for the time being of and from all and all manner of
Costs Taxes Rates Assessments and Charges whatsoever for
or by reason or meanes of the Birth Education and
Maintenance of such Child or Children and of and from
all Actions Suits Troubles and other Charges and demands
whatsoever touching or concerning the same That Then
this present Obligation to be void otherwise to remain
in full force and virtue.
Sealed & Delivered (being
first duly Stamped) in the presence of us |
The Mark of ZEBELEN SAUNDERS *(L/S)
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(Signed) MARY ADAMS
(Signed) JOHN RENFREE |
(Signed) GEORGE EVA *(L/S) |
*locus sigili - Location of Seal
On the Reverse:
4 day of March 1783
Zebulen Sanders Bond to
Indemnify the parish of
Budock from a Bastard
Child or Children
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