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Abraham</note>
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WE, Whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set, Two of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50961_occ160">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo412">County of Middlesex</rs>
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(one whereof being of the Quorum) inhabiting in or next<lb></lb>
unto the Limits of the Parish Church of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo413">St. Andrew Holborn</rs>
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, having met together, and heard the<lb></lb>
Complaint of the Overseers of the Poor of that Part of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo414">Parish of St. Andrew</rs>
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Holborn which lies<lb></lb>
above the Bars, in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo415">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, and the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo416">Parish of St. George the Martyr</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
Counyt, concerning a Male Bastard Child, baptized <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-1">Sidney</rs>
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born<lb></lb>
of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-2">Marsha Page</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50961_occ161">Singlewoman</rs>
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within the said part of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo417">parish of St.<lb></lb>
Andrew</rs>
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Holborn- which is become chargeable thereto, and is so likely to continue, Do, upon the<lb></lb>
Examination of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-3">Martha Page</rs>
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. taken upon Oath before us, find and adjudge the said<lb></lb>
Complaint to be true-And we do also find, upon the Oath the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-4">Martha Page</rs>
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that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-5">Henry Smith</rs>
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now Waiter to Mr. Benson of Hand Court in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo418">County of Middlesex</rs>
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did<lb></lb>
beget on the Body of her the said Marsha Pages- the said Male Bastard Child. AND<lb></lb>
WHEREAS we have summoned the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-6">Henry Smith</rs>
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- to appear before us this Day to<lb></lb>
answer the said Complaint, and shew Cause why he should not be adjudged the putative Father of the<lb></lb>
said Male Bastard Child; and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-7">Henry Smith</rs>
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having appeared to<lb></lb>
answer the said Complaint, and having, shewn no Cause why he should not be adjudged the putative<lb></lb>
Father of the said Male Bastard child-WE the said Justices, upon Examination upon Oath of<lb></lb>
the said Martha <obscured></obscured>
and on Proof being<obscured></obscured>
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the said Summons, and other Circumstances appearing unto us, Do adjudge him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-8">Henry<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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to be the putative Father of the said Male Bastard Child, and do order and appoint<lb></lb>
and forthwith, upon Notice of this our Order, to pay or cause to be paid to the said Overseers of<lb></lb>
the Poor, the Sum of One Pound Eleven Shillings & Eight Pence of lawful Money<lb></lb>
of Great Britain, by them already expended in the Relief and Maintenance of the said Male Bastard<lb></lb>
Child, and other Expences attending the same-AND ALSO that he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50961_n941-9">Henry Smith</rs>
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shall Weekly, and every Week from henceforth, pay or cause to be paid to the said Overseers of the<lb></lb>
Poor of the said Part of the said Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn and the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo419">Parish of St. George the<lb></lb>
Martyr</rs>
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Two Shillings for and towards the Relief and Maintenance of the said <lb></lb>
Male Bastard Child for so long Time as the same shall remain chargeable to the said Part of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo420">Parish of St. Andrew</rs>
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Holborn and the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo421">Parish of St. George the Martyr</rs>
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.<del>GIVEN under<lb></lb>
our Hand and Seals this</del>
And We do further Order that the said Marsha Page<lb></lb>
shall also pay or cause to be paid to the Overseers of the Poor of the said Part of the said parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Andrew Holborn and the said parish of Saint George the Martyr the sum of Six Pence<lb></lb>
Weekly and every Week so long as the said Male Bastard Child shall he and remain chargeable<lb></lb>
to the said part of the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo422">Saint Andrew Holborn</rs>
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and the said parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo423">Saint George the<lb></lb>
Martyr</rs>
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in case she shall not Nurses and take care of the said Male Bastard Child herself Given<lb></lb>
under our Hands and Seals at the Public office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50961_geo424">Hatton Garden</rs>
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the Twenty Seventh day of May one<lb></lb>
thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety nine</p>
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