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Know all men by these presents, that we JACOB STEPHENS
and HUMPHREY STEPHENS both of the Parish of Saint Cleer
in the County of Cornwall Husbandmen are held and firmly
bound unto WILLIAM DANIEL and WILLIAM STANTON,
Churchwardens and THOMAS SEALY and JOHN DAVEY Overseers
of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Cleer in the said
County in Twenty Pounds of good and lawfull money of
Great Britain to be paid to the said Churchwardens and
Overseers or their certain Attorneys, their Executors,
Administrators, or Assigns To which payment well and
truly to be made we bind ourselves and each of us
jointly and severally and our and each and every of our
Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, firmly by these
presents; Sealed with our Seals and dated the thirteenth
day of June in the thirty second year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the third of Great Britain
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, and so
forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
Hundred and ninety two.
The Condition of this obligation is such, that Whereas
MARY BARTLETT of the Parish of Saint Cleer in the said
County, Single woman, hath in and by her voluntary
examination, taken in writing and upon oath, before JOHN
COLES Clerk one of his Majesty’s Justices of the peace
in and for the said County of Cornwall declared that she
is with child, and that the said child is likely to be
born a bastard, and to be chargeable to the said Parish
of St. Cleer and that the above bounden JACOB STEPHENS
is the father of the said child; If therefore the said
JACOB STEPHENS and HUMPHREY STEPHENS or either of them,
their, or either of their 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 St. Cleer
and their successors for the time being, as also all and
singular the other Parishioners and Inhabitants of the
said Parish of Saint Cleer, which now are, or hereafter
shall be for the time being, of and from all manner of
costs, taxes, rates, assessments, and charges whatsoever
for or by reason of the birth, education, and
maintenance of the said Child, and of and from all
actions, suits, troubles and other charges and demands
whatsoever, touching or concerning the same, then this
present obligation to be void, otherwise of force.
STAMPED THREE HALF PENCE SHEET
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