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1806 Dec 15th
John and Thomas Martyn the Younger Indemnification and Bond in Bastardy
 
Know all Men by these Presents That We John Martyn Carpenter and Thomas Martyn the younger Husbandman both of the Parish of Probus in the County of Cornwall are jointly and severally held and firmly bound to Matthew Roberts and Thomas Gerrans Churchwardens, and John Kessell Charles Carter and Robert Goodfellow Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Probus in the County of Cornwall in the Sum of One Hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britian to be paid to the said Churchwardens and Overseers or their certain Attorney Executors Administrators or Assigns for which Payment to be well and truly made We bind ourselves and each of us jointly and severally and each of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by these Presents. Sealed with our Seals Dated this fifteenth Day of December in the forty sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith and in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and six
 
The Condition of this Obligation is such That whereas Hannah Eade of the said Parish of Probus Singlewoman hath in and by her voluntary Examination taken in Writing and upon Oath before the Revd William Gregor Clerk One of his Majestys Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Cornwall declared that she is with Child and that the said Child (or Children) is or are likely to be born a Bastard, or Bastards and to be chargeable to the said Parish of Probus and that the above bounden Thomas Martyn is the father of the said Child or Children. If therefore the said John Martyn and Thomas Martyn or either of them their Heirs Executors 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 Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Probus and their Successors for the time being and also all and singular other the Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said Parish which now are or hereafter shall be for the time being of from and against all manner of Costs Taxes Rates Assessments and Charges whatsoever for or by reason of the birth education and maintenance of the said Child or Children and of and from all actions suits troubles and incumberances and other Charges and Demands whatsoever touching and concerning the same then this Obligation to be void otherwise of Force

Signed, sealed, and delivered		(signed) John Martin (signed) Thomas Martyn
in the presence of
(signed) Bennett Yeoman

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