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2nd Nov 1786
Order in Bastardy
Eliz Bassetts ?child
Wm Hotten
Cornwall To Witt
The Order of Henry Hawkins Tremayne Clerk and Edwd
Collins Esqr two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace
in and for the said County (one whereof is of the
Quorum) and both residing next unto the limits of the
Parish Church within the Parish of Probus in the said
County, made the second day of November in the year of
our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Eightysix,
concerning a Female bastard Child, lately born in the
Parish of Probus in the said County, of the body of
Elizabeth Bassett singlewoman.
Whereas it hath appeared unto us the said Justices as
well upon the Complaint of the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Probus as
well upon the Oath of the said Elizabeth Bassett that
she the said Elizabeth Bassett on the seventeenth day of
September now last past was delivered of a female
bastard Child named Mary in the Parish of Probus in the
said County, and that the said bastard Child is now
chargeable to the said Parish of Probus, and further
that William Hotten of the said Parish of Probus Yeoman,
did beget the said bastard Child on the body of her the
said Elizabeth Bassett. And whereas the said William
Hotten hath appeared before us, but hath not shewed any
sufficient cause why he the said William Hotten shall be
the reputed Father of the said bastard Child
We therefore upon Examination of the cause and
circumstance of the Premises, as well upon the Oath of
the said Elizabeth Bassett as otherwise do hereby
adjudge him the said William Hotten to be the reputed
Father of the said Bastard Child.
And thereupon we do order as well for the better relief
of the said parish of Probus as for the sustentation and
relief of the said bastard Child, that the said William
Hotten shall and do forthwith, upon notice of this our
order, pay or cause to be paid to the said Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the said parish of Probus
or to some or one of them, the Sum of Two Pounds two
shillings and eight pence for and towards the lying in
of the said Elizabeth Bassett and the maintainance of
the said Bastard Child, to the time of making this our
order.
And we do also hereby further order, that the said
William Hotten shall likewise pay or cause to be paid to
the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish of Probus for the time being, or to some or one
of them, the sum of Sixteen pence weekly and every week
from this present time, for and towards the keeping,
sustentation, and maintenance of the said bastard Child,
for and during so long time as the said bastard Child
shall be chargeable to the said Parish of Probus.
And we do further order that the said Elizabeth Bassett
shall also pay or cause to be paid to the said
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish of Probus for the time being or to some or one of
them, the sum of eight pence weekly and every week so
long as the said Bastard Child shall be chargeable to
the said parish of Probus in case she shall not nurse
and take care of the said child herself.
Given under our Hands and Seals the day and year first
abovewritten.
(signed) H Hawkins Tremayne
(signed) Edw Collins
Source:- LDS Film No. 1596397, CRO Ref:
P194/16/A/26
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