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KNOW all men by these Presents, that I RICHARD ROGERS
late of the Parish of Feock in the County of Cornwall
Mariner am held and firmly bound unto JOHN TRESIZE and
WILLIAM GATLEY Churchwardens and JONATHN. PETERS Clerk
and JOHN LAVIN Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Saint Clements in the said County of Cornwall Yeomen (in
trust for the Parishioners of the said Parish) in Fifty
Pounds of Good and Lawfull Money of Great Britain, to be
paid to the said JOHN TRESIZE WILLIAM GATLEY JONAN.
PETERS and JOHN LAVIN or their certain Attorney, their
Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, To which Payment
well and truly to be made, I bind myself my Heirs
executors and administrators firmly by these Presents;
Sealed with my Seal and dated the Sixteenth day of
November in the Twenty fifth 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
Eighty four.
The Condition of this Obligation is such that whereas
MARY THOMAS of the said Parish of Saint Clements Single
woman was in the Month of October now last past
delivered of a Female Bastard Child named MARY in the
said Parish of Saint Clements which said Bastard Child
is now Chargeable to the said parish of Saint Clements
and the said MARY THOMAS hath Charged the above bound
RICHARD ROGERS with having Gotten her with Child of the
said Bastard Child.
If therefore the said RICHARD ROGERS 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 Saint
Clements and their Successors for the time being, as
also all and singular the other Parishioners and
Inhabitants of the said Parish of Saint Clements 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 or 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.
Signed Sealed and
delivered (having
been first duly stampt) in the presence of
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Mark of RICHARD ROGERS (and
Sealed)
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(Signed) WM.
MARTYN
(Signed) JAMES CHAPPLE |
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In the left margin: Stamped HALF PENNY SHEET
On the Reverse:
16th November 1784
Richard Rogers’s
Bond to Indemnify
The Parish
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