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To the Constable of the parish of St. Germans in the said County |
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WHEREAS CHARITY COLLEY of St. Germans in the said County single Woman,
hath by her Examination, taken in Writing upon Oath, before me JOHN
CLARKE, Esq. one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the
said County declared, that on the second Day of February now last past,
at St. Germans in the county aforsd., she the said CHARITY COLLEY was
delivered of a female Bastard Child, and that the said Bastard Child is
likely to become chargeable to the said parish of St. Germans and hath
charged CHARLES HOSKYN of St. Germans in the said County Carpenter with
having gotten her with Child of the said Bastard Child: And whereas
WILLIAM CORNISH one of the Overseers of the Poor of the parish
aforesaid, in order to indemnify the said parish of St. Germans in the
Premises, hath applied to me to issue my Warrant for the apprehending of
the said CHARLES HOSKYN I do therefore hereby command you, immediately
to apprehend the said CHARLES HOSKYN and to bring him before me, or some
other of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County to find
Security to indemnify the said Parish of St. Germans or else to find
sufficient surety for his Appearance at the next general Quarter
Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County and to abide and
perform such Order or Orders, as shall be made in pursuance of an Act
passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen
Elizabeth, concerning Bastards begotten and born out of lawful
Matrimony. Given under my Hand and Seal the fourth day of March in the
Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and 89. On the Reverse:
1789 ) Warrant to |
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Contributed by Shirley Cattermole |
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