William Woolston

Indemnity Bond
William Woolston, William Fisher and Thomas Glitherow
29th April 1772

Know all Men by these Presents that we William Woolston of Great Oakley in the County of Northampton Yeoman William Fisher of Great Oakley aforesaid Grasier and Thomas Glitherow of Great Oakley aforesaid Grasier are held and firmly bound to John Dexter Gentleman and Thomas Ball Churchwardens and George Cave and William Cave Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Desborough in the said County (in trust for the Parishioners of the said Parish) in the Sum of Fifty pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to the said John Dexter Thomas Ball George Cave and William Cave or their certain Attorney Executors Administrators or Assigns To which Payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves and each and every of us jointly and severally and our and each and every of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by these Presents Sealed with our Seals and dated the twenty ninth day of April - in the twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy two.

The Condition of this obligation is such that whereas Mary Riddle of Desborough aforesaid Widow in her Examination taken in Writing upon Oath before the Reverend John Hill Doctor of Laws one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County hath declared that she hath been delivered of a male Bastard Child in the Parish of Desborough aforesaid in the County aforesaid and that the said Bastard Child is likely to become chargeable to the said Parish of Desborough - and hath charged the above bounden William Woolston with having gotten her with Child of the said Bastard Child. If therefore the said William Woolston  William Fisher and Thomas Glitherow any or either of them their any or either of their Heirs Executors or Administrators do and shall from time to time and at all times here after fully and clearly indemnify and save harmless as well the above named Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Desborough and their Successors for the time being as also all and singular the other Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said Parish of Desborough which now are or hereafter shall be for the time being of and from all manner of Costs Taxes Rates Assessments and Charges whatsoever for or by reason of the Birth Education and Maintenance of the said Child and of and from all actions Suits Troubles and other Charges and Demands whatsoever touching or concerning the same that then this present obligation to be void otherwise of Force.

Sealed and delivered (being first legally stamped) by the above bounden William Woolston William Fisher and Thomas Glitherow in the presence of

Robt Abbey Junr        John Piercy

William Woolston

W Fisher

Tho Glitherow

 

Notes:

Mary's son William was baptised 26th December 1772

 

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