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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | Q/SB/2/21a |
| Title | Certificate of inhabitants of Bowden Chappell about behaviour of Elizabeth Green, mother of two bastards. (n.d. thought to be c.1630) |
| Date | c.1630 |
| Publication Date | 14/02/2025 |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions |
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| Format | Document |
| Transcript or Index | To the right Wor[shi]p. the Justices of the Peaces at ye next generall sessions to be held for ye County of Derby.
The humble certificate of the Inhabitants of Bowden Chappell thereas wee whose names and written are very sensible of the bad carriage and behaviour of one Elizabeth Greene of our P[ari]sh as will further appear to this Court shee having had two several bastards and hath fathered the same upon divers and sundry persons and as we are credibly informed that taken Compositions of some aft[er]w[a]rds father[e]d them upon others but finding her selfe yet unsatisfied for ye some fix w[hi]ch she reports for there (scratched) both maintenance of her necessitous friend hath fathered ye child upon one Anthony Bradshaw a man who hath a wife of his owne and lives in good amity w[i]th her and in very good esteem and credit amongst us and nowa[da]y imagined to [?] yo such affections. All w[hi]ch we humbly testifie and command.
Yo[u]r very humble serv[an]ts
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