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Know all men by these presents that We JOHN WRIGHT Junr. and JOHN ROSE Gentlemen both of the Borough of Truro in the County of Cornwall are held and firmly bound unto JOHN LAVIN and HENRY PARNELL, Churchwardens and RICHARD JULIAN and ROBERT CALFE Overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clements in the said County (in trust for the Parishioners of the said parish) in Forty Pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to the said JOHN LAVIN and HENRY PARNELL Church Wardens and RICHARD JULIAN and ROBERT CALFE Overseers or to their certain attorney 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 Second day of March in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Ninety One.

The condition of this obligation is such that whereas PHILLIS WILLIAMS singlewoman hath been delivered of a Male Bastard Child and hath declared that the above bound JOHN WRIGHT Junr. is the Father of the said Child If therefore the said JOHN WRIGHT Junr. and JOHN ROSE 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 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 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 whatsoever touching or concerning the same That then this present obligation to be void otherwise of force.

Signed Sealed and deliver'd (having been first duly stamp’d) in the presence of		(Signed) JOHN WRIGHT Junr. (and Sealed)   (Signed) JOHN ROSE (and Sealed)
(Signed) EDWd. LAWRANCE

In the left margin: STAMPED Half Penny Sheet

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