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<p n="538"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx,</note>
To all Constables of Staines in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo324">Middx</rs>
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and to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50704_occ165">Keeper<lb></lb>
of the New Prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo325">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="539"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Whereas</note>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-1">Elizabeth Sumpter</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo326">Staines</rs>
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aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50704_occ166">Singlewoman</rs>
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in her<lb></lb>
Examination taking in writing upon oath before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-2">John Roberts</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the sd. County of Middx hath<lb></lb>
Declared that in the month of September which was in the year of our Lord<lb></lb>
1768 in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo327">Parish of Staines</rs>
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aforesaid she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-3">Elizabeth Sumpter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was delivered of a Male Bastard Child and that the said Bastard Child<lb></lb>
become chargeable to the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo328">Parish of Staines</rs>
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, And hath charged <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-4">James<lb></lb>
Pain</rs>
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of Staines aforesaid Labourour with having Gollen her with Child<lb></lb>
of the said bastard Child And whereas the same <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-5">James Pain</rs>
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being<lb></lb>
now personally present before me being brought by a warrant<lb></lb>
Granted by the aforesaid <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-6">John Roberts</rs>
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Esqr. upon Application to him<lb></lb>
for that Purpose made by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-7">John Bannister</rs>
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one of the Overseers of<lb></lb>
the Poor of the said Parish hath refused to give security to<lb></lb>
Indemnefy the said Parish and hath also refused to enter into<lb></lb>
a Recognizance with Sufficient Suretys upon Conditions to<lb></lb>
Appear at the Next General Sessions of the Peace to be holden<lb></lb>
for the said County and to abide and perform such order or<lb></lb>
Order's as shall be made in persuance of an act passed in the<lb></lb>
Eighteenth year of the Reign of her Late Majesty Queen<lb></lb>
Elizabeth concerning Bastards begotten & Born out of<lb></lb>
Lawfull Matrimony, These are therefore to command you the<lb></lb>
said Constable to take & Convey the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-8">James Pain</rs>
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to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo329">New Prison</rs>
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<lb></lb>
as <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo330">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the said County & to deliver him to the Keeper thereof<lb></lb>
together with this Warrant And you the said Keeper are hereby<lb></lb>
Commanded to receive the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n539-9">James Pain</rs>
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into your Custody in the sd.<lb></lb>
Prison And him theres after to Keep until he shall Give such<lb></lb>
security or Enter unto such Recognizance as aforesaid or be otherwise<lb></lb>
from thence lawfully delivered Given under my hand & Seal<lb></lb>
this 25th. day of October in the Year of our Lord 1769</p>
<p n="540">a True Copy <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n540-1">Willm. Pentlow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50704_occ167">Keeper</rs>
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<p n="541"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n541-1">John Gibbons</rs>
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.</p>
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