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waken or about the three &
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Twenty at Day of February in the year afour Lord one Thousand
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Seven Hundred Twenty & one delivered of a Female Bastard Child
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in the City of London Baptized by the
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is become chargeable
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to the said Parish & is likely so to continued wherefore We whose Name
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are hereunto Sett Two of His Majtys Justices of the Peace for the said
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City (Quord unus) and beth of us residering next to the Limitts where
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upon the Complaint of the Chuchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of
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the Parish aforesaid taken upon us the hearing and Exaincon of the
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Cause and Circumstances of the Prmisses Defind upon the Exaiacon
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of the said Fane Nailer taken upon Oath and other Proofs That
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William
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Leister
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did begett the said Female Bastard Child Whereupon
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we do adjudge the said William Leister to be the reputed Father of the said
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Female Bastard Child And do Order that he the said William Leister
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Shall on Sight of this our Order pay or cause to be paid unto the Church
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wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of St. Peter the Poor
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some or one of them the sume of Six Pounds & Ten pence of lawfull
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money of Great Brittain so much being by them already expended
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for and towards the Maintenance of the said Female Bastard Child
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and other incident Charges and Expences And also That he the said Wm.
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Leister shallon Tuesday in every Week, weekly from and after the Date
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here of So long as the said Female Bastard Child shall continued chargeable
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to the said Parish paryor cause to be paid unto the Churchwardens and
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Overseers of the Poor of the sate Parish the Sume of two Shillings and
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Six pence of like lawfull money for and towards the Maintenance of
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the said Female Bastard Child In Witness whereof we the said
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Justices have here unto Sett our hands this
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Fourteenth Day of May
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Gerard Conyers
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