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Know all Men by these presents that I JAMES WILLS of the Parish of
Landulph in the County of Cornwall Husbandman am held and firmly bound
unto ROBERT HICKS ROBERT JORY ANTHONY LEAN and THOMAS MITCHELL Church
Wardens and ROBERT HANCOCK ROBERT GOOLE and CHARLES CONGDION Overseers
of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Germans in the said County (in trust
for the Parishioners of the said Parish) in the Sum of Fifty Pounds of
good and lawfull Money of Great Britain, to be paid to the said ROBERT
HICKS, ROBERT JORY, ANTHONY LEAN, THOMAS MITCHELL, ROBERT HANCOCK,
ROBERT GOOLE and CHARLES CONGDION 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 Twelfth day of
November in the Second 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 Sixty one.
The Condition of this Obligation is such that Whereas MARY HILL of the
Parish of Saint Germans in the County of Cornwall Singlewoman hath in
and by her Examination taken on Oath before EDWARD ELIOT Esquire one of
his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of
Cornwall hath declared that on or about the 22nd day of August in the
year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty five at Amdea? in
the parish of Saint Germans in the County aforesaid she the said MARY
HILL was delivered of a Male Bastard Child and that the said bastard
Child is become chargeable to the said Parish of Saint Germans and hath
charged the above bounden JAMES WILLS with having gotten her with Child
of the said Bastard Child. If therefore the said JAMES WILLS, 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 Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish of Saint Germans and their Successors for the time being as also
all and Singular the other Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said
Parish of Saint Germans, 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 and
Maintenance of the said Child and of and from all Actions, Suits,
troubles and other Charges and demands whatsoever touching or concerning
the same, That then this present Obligation to be void and of no
validity in the Law whatsoever Otherwise be and remain in full power
force and virtue.
Signed Sealed and delivered (having been
first duly stampt) in the presence of
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The Mark of JAMES WILLS (and Sealed) |
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(Signed) THO. CALVERT
(Signed) JOHN BROOKS?
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In the margin:
Stamped Seven Pence Quire
On the reverse:
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James Wills
to
The Churchwardens
Overseers of the Poor
of
Saint Germans
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Bond
for
50GBP
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1761 18th Nov
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