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County of
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To the Constable of the parish of Padstow
WHEREAS ELIZABETH WILLIAMS of the Parish of Padstow in
the said County single Woman, did, by her Examination,
taken in Writing, upon Oath, before CHARLES LYNE, Clerk
one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for
the said County on the Thirteenth day of November last
did declare, That on the fifth Day of July now last
past, at Padstow in the Parish of Padstow in the County
aforesaid she the said ELIZABETH WILLIAMS was delivered
of a female Bastard Child; and that the said Bastard
Child is likely to become chargeable to the Parish of
Padstow in the said County and that SILAS JOHN PARKER
NANCE of Padstow in the said Parish of Padstow did beget
the said Child on the Body of her the said ELIZABETH
WILLIAMS And whereas JOHN WHITFORD one of the Overseers
of the Poor of the Parish of Padstow aforesaid, in order
to indemnify the said Parish in the Premises, hath
applied to us to issue one Warrant for the apprehending
of the said SILAS JOHN PARKER NANCE. We therefore hereby
command you immediately to apprehend the said SILAS JOHN
PARKER NANCE and to bring him before us or some other of
his said Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said
County to find Security to indemnify the said Parish of
Padstow 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 our Hands and Seals the Twenty sixth Day of
November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight
Hundred and thirty three.
(Signed) CHARLES LYNE (and Sealed)
(Signed) Wm. MOLESWORTH (and Sealed)
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