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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 dischardge the parishe of Saint Johns where the child was borne; and alsoe to allowe c such competent meanes …
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 … laund, for soe longe tyme as she hath keipte the saied child; and they according to ther duties will daylie pray to …
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 …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… save the said parish of Ombersly harmeless from the said child and have paid 10 pence per weeke towards the reliefe of … small children are utterly unable to mainteyn the said child humbly craves your good worships to take into your …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… that about two yeares ago Elizabeth Allen a poore parish child was by the officers of the parish placed on Master … Swift who then then lookt after his business, seet the child to be to be kept by your petitioner at 18 pence a week, … by him and Master Alderman, but after refused leaveing the child upon your petitioner who kept it one and thirty weeks …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… and principal inhabitants of the chapelry of Hanley Child. Ref.110 BA1/1/544/44 (1796) To his majesty's justices … and principal inhabitants of the chapelry of Hanley Child in the parish of Eastham in the said county of … officiating officer for Thomas Cook chapelwarden of Hanley Child James Clark of Sutton, Yorkshire. Ref.110 BA1/1/546/57 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… his said wife Joane, the lady of Alveton, died in child bed 6 of the Nones of Octob. 1334, of the age of thirty … of all England, both here and at Sheffeid she also left no child; and Aletheia, the wife of Thomas earl of Arundell she … and coheir to George lord Dacres, by whom he left an only child. Thomas, earl of Arundal, was in favour with king James …