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Know all Men by these Presents that I WILLIAM BEWES
of the parish of Egloshaile in the County of Cornwall
Labourer, am held and firmly bound to HENRY MITCHELL,
CHARLES GUY, JOHN BLAKE and WILLIAM ANDREW the Church
Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Padstow in the said County of Cornwall, in One Hundred
pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain to be
paid to the said HENRY MITCHELL, CHARLES GUY, JOHN BLAKE
and WILLIAM ANDREW or one of them or to their Certain
Attornies their Executors and Administrators and every
of them firmly by these presents. Sealed with my Seal
Dated this third Day of February in the Seventeenth year
of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the third by
the Grace of God 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 seventy
seven. Whereas by an Order made and Subscribed by JOHN
WILLYAMS and J.O. WILLYAMS Esquires two of his Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace for the said County of Cornwall on
or about the Ninth Day of January last past concerning a
Female Bastard Child lately Born of the Body of
ELIZABETH DOCTON of the said parish of Padstow a Single
Woman in the parish of Padstow aforesaid and now
Chargeable to the said Parish of Padstow, And Whereas
upon Examination of the Cause and circumstances of the
Premises as well upon the Oath of the said ELIZABETH
DOCTON as Otherwise did thereby adjudge him the above
bounden WILLIAM BEWES to be the reputed Father of the
said Bastard Child and thereupon did order as well for
the better relief of the said parish of Padstow as for
the Sustentation and relief of the said Bastard Child
that the above bounden WILLIAM BEWES should forthwith
upon Notice of the said Order pay or Cause to be paid to
the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
said parish of Padstow or to some or one of them the Sum
of forty shillings for and towards the lying in of the
said ELIZABETH DOCTON and the maintenance of the said
Bastard Child to the Time of making said Order, and did
thereby further Order that the above bounden WILLIAM
BEWES should likewise pay or Cause to be paid to the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
parish of Padstow for the Time being or to some or one
of them the sum of fourteen Pence weekly and every week
from the Time of making of said Order for and towards
the keeping sustentation and maintenance of the said
Bastard Child for and during so long Time as the said
Bastard Child should be Chargeable to the said parish of
Padstow
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