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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of Holt Sheweing that shee was unlawfully begatt with child by Rowland Lloyd one of Sir Henry Bromleyes men; whoe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… husbondman, for the unlawfull begettinge of a man child of the bodye of Joane Preston of Hartleburye spinster, … be bound to free the parishe from the keepinge of the said child, and that the said Joane Preston may have satisfaccion … that the sayd Yarnold is the supposed father of the said child or to take such other order therein, as in your …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… more of their owne purses for the releife of the said child. Besides the money due from the hamlett of Lulsey taxed … your worshipes to be advertised that wheras theris a poore child whoe was borne in the parish of Alchurch now some viii … crave reliefe wher he can at honest menes doores: the said child wander ing over the country by chance came to my doore …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Hemmyng late of thys citty being the reputed father of a child begotten of the body of your poore peticioner whoe hath … allowe her anie mayntainaunce towardes the breeding of the child and the constables of Saint Mychaels in Bedwarden had a … mayntaynance from his father otherwise both shee and her child is like to famishe for want of foode having spent all …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… to dwell or inhabitt in no nowe and havinge one little child cannot tell howe or what shyfte to make to maynteyt ourselves and our child and in regard of our grete povertie cannot take course …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… and helpe in this my distress or else my poore wyfe and child are like to perrish without the dores And this right … Stockton I may have a house there, to bringe my wyfe and child unto, that I may helpe them the best I can, and your … children Jane Jones and twoe children Anne [Dove?] and one child Clement Stocke Wydowe Cox and two children Frauncis …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… peticioner aboutes six yeares since unlawefully begatt a child on the bodie of one Alice Hillman and for the same his … soe in truth deflowred the peticioner and begatt her with child vowing and protesting in his unlawfull [love?] … such tyme as yt appered that the peticioner was with child by him as allso sythence the tyme of her deliverance of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… it was your peticioners misfortune to bee gotten with child by one George Harris then servant in howse with your … forced to sell her clothes to succour herselfe and her child, not haveinge any allowance att all from the sayd … to [f...?] [illegible] trades for there mayntenance [a...e?] beinge [convicted?] [illegible] and pettie offences: …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… into the lowe [countries?], and hathe lefte a base woman child born [illegible] the saied mannor of Holt to bee … that there may bee some order made, that the said base child may have maintenance out of hir fathers halfe yard … sion of hym, for [illegible] she gave hym mony and a [p...e?] of bacon? [illegible] had butt [he?] went away with a …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… debauched woeman) charging him as the father of a bastard child begotten of her body; is by this honourable bench ordered to pay towards the mainetenance of the said child 4 pence by the week which 4 pence being deducted out of … officers of the aforesaid hamlett of Alfrick doe keep this child is onely to continue [the charg?] upon Harvy; which …