and being so with Child is now sent or conveyed to your Town of B. under
colour that she was there born, to the burthening of your said Town,
and contrary to Law:  These are in His Majesties Name to charge and
command you safely to convey the said I. to W. aforesaid, there to be set
on work, or otherwise to be provided for according to Law.  And that
you deliver and leave, or offer to leave, the said I. to and with some one
of the Churchwardens or Overseers for the Poor of the Parish of W. aforesain.
And hereof fail you not, &c.

* See
what they
be in the
title Poor.

    THese are in the Kings Majesties Name to charge and command you
forthwith to give warning to the Churchwardens, and other the
Overseers of the Poor of every Parish within your Hundred, that they
do personally appear before us at New Market, at the Sign of the Greyhound
there, upon Tuesday the tenth of June next coming, by nine of
the Clock in the Forenoon of the same day, to yield up, and to make a
true and perfect account in writing, subscribed with their Names or
Marks, of all such Sums of Mony as they have received, or rated and
assessed and not received, for and towards the relief of the Poor of their
several Parishes, and also of such Stock (to set their Poor or work) as is
in their hands, or in the hands of any their said Poor to work, and of
all * other things concerning their said Office:  and hereof that you fail
not at their or every of their perils.  And farther we require you, that
you give warning to the petty Constables of every Town within your
said Hundred, that they or one of them be also then and there present
before us, to inform and certifie us of the Names of such other persons
as are meet and fitting to be Overseers of the Poor within their several
Towns, for this year next ensuing.  And hereof fail you not, &c.

Cambr.

    BY virtue of the Statute made in the three and fortieth Year of the
Reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, (intituled, An
Act for the relief of the Poor)  These are to will and require you whose
names are hereunder written, that you together with the Churchwardens
of your Parish for the time being, do (according to the same Statute) take
order from time to time, for this year to come, for the setting to work of
the Poor within your Parish, and for the raising of a convenient stock of
some Ware or Stuff in your Town to that purpose; and for the providing
of necessary Relief for such as be lame and impotent amongst you; and for
the placing as Apprentices such Children whose Parents are not able to
maintain them:  And hereof see that you fail not at your perils.  Dated
under the hands and seals of us I. S. and I. D. two of his Majesties Justices of
Peace within the said County of Cambridge.