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Charles Brays Bond in Bastardy
1795
Know all Men by these Presents that I Charles Bray of
the Parish of Probus in the County of Cornwall am held
and firmly bound unto John Roberts Church Warden and
Andrew Buckingham Amos Weeks and Andrew Bond Overseers
of the Poor of the said Parish of Probus (in Trust for
the Parishioners of the said Parish) in Twenty Pounds of
good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to the
said John Roberts Andrew Buckingham Amos Weeks and
Andrew Bond or their certain Attorney their Successors
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 second Day of October
in the thirtysixth 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
Ninety-five.
The Condition of this Obligation is such that Whereas
Mary Webb of the said Parish of Probus and County of
Cornwall aforesaid single woman hath in and by her own
voluntary Examination taken in Writing and upon Oath
before Sir Christopher Hawkins Baronet One of His
Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the said
County of Cornwall declared that she is now Pregnant and
with Child or Children and that the said Child or
Children when born will be a Bastard or Bastards and
likely to become Chargeable to the said Parish of Probus
and that the abovebounden Charles Bray is the Father of
the said Child or Children If therefore the said Charles
Bray 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
abovenamed Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the said Parish of Probus and their Successors for the
time being as also all and singular the other
Parishioners and inhabitants of the said Parish of
Probus 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 or
Children and of and from all Actions Suits Troubles and
other Charges and Demands touching or concerning the
same that then this present Obligation to be void
Otherwise to remain in full Force and Virtue
| Signed sealed and
delivered (being |
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The Mark of Charles Bray |
| first duly stamped) in presence of us |
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(signed) Isaac?
(signed) John Anear
Source:- LDS Film No. 1596397,
CRO Ref: P194/16/1 and P194/16/A/28
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