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Wee whose names are Subcribed and Seales hereto Affixed Two
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of her the Said Mary Spicer the Said Male Bastard Child
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mony of Great Brittan Towards defraying the Charge of
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first four Weeks after the Birth thereof and five shillings for
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the Midwife as alsoe that he the sd William Laney Shall
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Child for see Long time at the said male Bastard Child Shall
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remaine Chargable to the said parish And of and from the
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Order as her Majties: Justices of the peace or the more pars of them Shall
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29th
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Day of September Anno Domn: 1711
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