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Whereas Information and Complaint, upon Oath, have been
made before me WILLIAM JOPE Esquire one of his Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace for the said County, by MATTHEW
DANIEL one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Saint Cleer in the County of Cornwall that, by an Order
under the Hands and Seals of WILLIAM JOPE and JOHN LYNE,
Esquires two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in
and for the said County of Cornwall and both residing
next unto the Limits of the Parish Church within the
Parish of Saint Cleer aforesaid in the said County of
Cornwall one whereof is of the Quorum, WILLIAM SOWDEN
the younger of St. Cleer aforesaid in the County of
Cornwall, Laborer is adjudged to be the reputed Father
of a male Bastard Child, born of the Body of ELIZABETH
BURRIDGE at Trelithick in the said Parish of Saint Cleer;
and that in and by such Order it is ordered that the
said WILLIAM SOWDEN the younger should pay to the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
parish of St. Cleer or to some or one of them the sum of
Three pounds four shillings and ten pence for and
towards the maintenance of the said Bastard child to the
time of making the said Order and for the charges and
expences incurred prior to the said Order being made and
incident to the obtaining of the said Order and also the
sum of One shilling and eight pence weekly from the time
of making the said Order for the keeping sustaining and
maintaining the said Bastard Child during so long as the
said Bastard Child should be chargeable to the said
Parish of Saint Cleer but that notwithstanding he the
said WILLIAM SOWDEN the younger hath had due Notice of
the said Order, yet he the said WILLIAM SOWDEN the
younger hath not observed nor performed the same, and
that there is now due and owing from the said WILLIAM
SOWDEN the younger unto the Churchwardens and Overseers
of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Cleer from the
ninth Day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and
thirty three to the fifteenth Day of May instant by and
under the said Order, the Sum of Four Pounds Six
Shillings and Six pence.
And whereas the said MATTHEW DANIEL one of the Overseers
of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Cleer aforesaid, in
Order to indemnify the said Parish of Saint Cleer in the
Premises, hath applied to me to issue out my Warrant for
the apprehending of the said WILLIAM SOWDEN the younger;
I do therefore hereby command you immediately to
apprehend the said WILLIAM SOWDEN the younger and to
bring him before me, or some other of his Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace for the said County of Cornwall to
answer the said Complaint. Herein fail you not.
Given under my Hand and Seal the Sixteenth Day of May
One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty three
(Signed) W. JOPE
(and Sealed)
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