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CORNWALL
TO WIT
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AT a Petty Session of Her Majesty’s Justices of the
Peace for the County of Cornwall holden in and for the
East Division of Pewithh in the said County, at the
parish of Camborne in the said County on the twenty
third day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
Eight Hundred and forty one before us the undersigned
two of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace of and for
the said County
Whereas the parish of Crowan in the County of
Cornwall is situate within the Helston Union, in the
said County, and part of such Union is situate within
the said East Division of Penwith in the said County.
And whereas, the Guardians of the said Union have now applied to
us, the Justices here assembled, and holding the Petty
Session aforesaid, in and for the said Division
aforesaid, for an Order upon THOMAS MATTHEWS of the said
parish of Crowan, Miner whom they the said Guardians
charge with being the putative father of a female child,
which has lately been born a bastard of the body of
ELIZABETH WOOLCOCK and not yet baptized and which has by
the inability of the said mother of such child to
provide for its maintenance, become chargeable to the
said parish of Crowan to reimburse such Union for the
maintenance and support of the said child.
And whereas due notice of the intention of the said Guardians to
make this present application was, on the thirteenth day
of March instant last, given by the said Guardians to
the said THOMAS MATTHEWS and the said THOMAS MATTHEWS
being now here present, and it being now proved to us,
the said Justices so here assembled as aforesaid, in the
presence and hearing of the said ELIZABETH WOOLCOCK that
the said child was on the fifteenth day of February last
past that is to say since the passing of an Act passed
in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majestty,
entitled “An Act for the amendment and better
administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in
England and Wales,” born a bastard of the body of the
said ELIZABETH WOOLCOCK. And that the said child, on the
said fifteenth day of February last past, and within
three calendar months of the making of this present
application, by reason of the inability of its said
mother to provide for its maintenance, became, and from
thence hitherto hath been and still is chargeable to the
said parish of Crowan. And it being duly proved on oath
now here, in the presence and hearing of the said THOMAS
MATTHEWS as well by the evidence of the said ELIZABETH
WOOLCOCK the mother of the said child, as upon other
testimony corroborative in material particulars of the
evidence of the said ELIZABETH WOOLCOCK to the
satisfaction of us the said Justices here, that the said
THOMAS MATTHEWS is the father of the said child: We the
said Justices here assembled as aforesaid, having heard
the evidence in this behalf adduced, and having heard
the said parties, are satisfied of the facts aforesaid,
and that the said THOMAS MATTHEWS is really and in truth
the father of the said child; And it appears to us, the
Justices so here assembled as aforesaid, to be just and
reasonable under all the circumstances of the case, that
the said THOMAS MATTHEWS should pay unto the Guardians
of the said Union such sum or sums of money as the said
Union has expended, and also such sums as the said Union
may from time to time expend, for the maintenance and
support of the said child, not exceeding the sum of two
shillings by the week.
And whereas no application has been made with
respect to the said child to any court of General
Quarter Sessions, under the provisions of the said Act,
so entitled as aforesaid.
Therefore, we, the said Justices, so here
assembled as aforesaid, do now hereby order that the
said THOMAS MATTHEWS do pay unto the Guardians of the
said Union, the sum of Seven Shillings expended by the
said Union for the maintenance of the said child from
the fifteenth day of February aforesaid, when the said
child became chargeable as aforesaid to the present
time, and do also pay to the Guardians of the said
Union, weekly and every week from henceforth, until the
said child shall attain the age of seven years, (if the
said child shall so long live and continue to be
chargeable to the said Parish of Crowan), such sum and
sums of money as shall be weekly expended by and on
behalf of the said Union, for the maintenance and
support of the said child during the time last
aforesaid, not exceeding the sum of two shillings in
each and every week. Given under our Hands and Seals, at
the Session aforesaid.
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(Signed) EWD?
PENDARVES (and Sealed) |
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(Signed) JOHN P.
MAGOR (and Sealed) |
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