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Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766
London Record Society, volume 33. Settlement examinations were enquiries into the legal settlement of paupers who had applied for relief. Bastardy examinations attempted to establish the paternity of illegitimate children and could advance the rights of a mother and child against the father. This volume is a transcription of the records of examinations held in the parish of Chelsea in the mid-eighteenth century.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III
… et terra illa, idem Henricus eidem Emme notam opposuit bastardie; et quia cogniciones hujusmodi casuum ad forum …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III
… Ricardum de Kirkeby in pleno comitatu predicto notam bastardie excipiendo proposuit, quam excepcionem idem …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III
… et uno mesuagio in Napton', et que remansit occasione bastardie coram nobis objecte, contra dictum Johannem …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III
… suam, sibi restitui, et pars adversa obiceret ei notam bastardie, et hujusmodi cogniciones ad forum spectent … esse bastardum, set legitimum, unde, si predicta excepcio bastardie ei iterato coram nobis obiciatur, nolumus quod ei …