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<p n="206"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London ss:</note>
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Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n206-4">Fane Nailer</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ76">Single woman</rs>
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waken or about the three &<lb></lb>
Twenty at Day of February in the year afour Lord one Thousand<lb></lb>
Seven Hundred Twenty & one delivered of a Female Bastard Child<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15034_geo94">Parish of St. Peter the Poor</rs>
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in the City of London Baptized by the<lb></lb>
Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n206-5">Elizabeth</rs>
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which said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ77">Female Bastard Child</rs>
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is become chargeable<lb></lb>
to the said Parish & is likely so to continued wherefore We whose Name<lb></lb>
are hereunto Sett Two of His Majtys Justices of the Peace for the said<lb></lb>
City (Quord unus) and beth of us residering next to the Limitts where<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
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upon the Complaint of the Chuchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of<lb></lb>
the Parish aforesaid taken upon us the hearing and Exaincon of the<lb></lb>
Cause and Circumstances of the Prmisses Defind upon the Exaiacon<lb></lb>
of the said Fane Nailer taken upon Oath and other Proofs That <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n206-1">William<lb></lb>
Leister</rs>
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, a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ78">Seaman</rs>
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did begett the said Female Bastard Child Whereupon<lb></lb>
we do adjudge the said William Leister to be the reputed Father of the said<lb></lb>
Female Bastard Child And do Order that he the said William Leister<lb></lb>
Shall on Sight of this our Order pay or cause to be paid unto the Church<lb></lb>
wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of St. Peter the Poor<lb></lb>
some or one of them the sume of Six Pounds & Ten pence of lawfull<lb></lb>
money of Great Brittain so much being by them already expended<lb></lb>
for and towards the Maintenance of the said Female Bastard Child<lb></lb>
and other incident Charges and Expences And also That he the said Wm.<lb></lb>
Leister shallon Tuesday in every Week, weekly from and after the Date<lb></lb>
here of So long as the said Female Bastard Child shall continued chargeable<lb></lb>
to the said Parish paryor cause to be paid unto the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the Poor of the sate Parish the Sume of two Shillings and<lb></lb>
Six pence of like lawfull money for and towards the Maintenance of<lb></lb>
the said Female Bastard Child In Witness whereof we the said<lb></lb>
Justices have here unto Sett our hands this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15034_date42">Fourteenth Day of May<lb></lb>
Anno Din 1723</rs>
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<p n="207"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n207-1">Gerard Conyers</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ79">Mayor</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n207-2">Geo: Merttins</rs>
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