Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.

An Order for Releif of the Parish touching a Bastard-Child, and for punishing the Mother and reputed Father.

Kent ss. THE Order of us W. B. and R. K.* 1.1 Esquires, two of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace of the said County, (whereof one of us is of the Quorum) and both residing in the limits where the Parish-Church of H. in the County aforesaid is the 19. day of April in the year of our Lord 1672. (according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided) touching the male Bastard-Child late born in the Parish of H. aforesaid, of the body of A. G. of the same Parish, Single woman, (the keeping of which said Bastard-Child hath ever since the birth thereof been, and still is chargeable to the Pa∣rish aforesaid, and so likely to continue charge∣able.)

First, (upon our Examination of the Cause and Circumstance, and due Consideration thereof by us had) we do adjudge W. S. late of H. aforesaid, Tayler, the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child.

And for Punishment of the said Mother and reputed Father, and the better Relief of the said Parish, we do hereby order as followeth: that is to say,

We do order, That the said Mother shall by the Constable and Borsholders of the Hun∣dred of Great B. in the said County, or by some or one of them, (upon some day, be∣tween the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon, in the common High-way at or

near, &c. in the Parish aforesaid) be stripped naked from the middle upwards, and then and there shall be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dung∣court, and being so stripped and tied, shall be there openly whipped untill her body be bloudy.

We do also order, That the said reputed Father shall by the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred aforesaid, or some or one of them, (upon some day, between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon, in the com∣mon High-way in the Parish aforesaid, over against the dwelling-house of I. S. there) be stripped naked from the middle upwards, and shall then and there be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt, and being so stripped and tied, shall be from thence drawn to the Watch-house aforesaid, and on the way well whipped, in such manner as is in such cases accustomed.

We do farther order, That the said Mother shall within three days next after notice of this our Order render her body to the said Con∣stable and Borsholders, or to some or one of them, ready to undergo her Punishment before ordered:

And that the said reputed Father shall with∣in six days next after notice of this our Order render his body to the said Constable and Bors∣holders, or to some or one of them, ready to undergo his punishment before ordered.

We do likewise farther order, That the said reputed Father shall within six days next after notice given unto him of this our Order pay, or cause to be paid, to the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid, or to some or one of them, twenty shillings of lawfull money of England, towards the moneys by them dis∣bursed (before the said notice given) for or

towards the charges of the keeping of the said Bastard-Child, from the time of the birth thereof untill the time of the giving of the said notice.

And that upon every Friday which shall be next after the end of the said six days, untill the said Bastard-Child shall attain unto his age of ten years, the said reputed Father shall like∣wise pay unto the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish (for the time being, (or unto some or one of them, sixteen pence of lawfull mony of England, towards the charges by them dis∣bursed towards the keeping of the Bastard-Child aforesaid,) meaning between the end of the said six days, and the time that he shall attain unto his said age of ten years.)

We do farther order, That the said Bastard-Child shall be kept and nourished by his said Mother untill he shall attain unto the age afore∣said; and that she (so far as she shall be able) shall during the said time so keep and nourish the same.

We do lastly order, That both the said Mo∣ther and reputed Father shall (for ever from and after such time as the said Bastard-Child shall attain unto his said age of ten years) joynt∣ly and severally discharge the said Parish of and from all charges whatsoever, for, touching or concerning the keeping or relieving of the same.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names the day and year first above written.

W. B. R. K.

Notes

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  18 Eliz. cap. 3. 2 Iustices, 1 of the Quorum.