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A difference arifing at play between the two lads, Mafter Blifil called Tom a beggarly baftard.
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Whom, to the Lydian king, Lycimnia barc And fent her boafted baftard to the war A privilege which none but freemen (hare).
The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson 1790
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As Sicardo left only one daughter, and a baftard fon, Is Succeeded and his brother Siconolphus was a prifoner at Tarento, by Radel -
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1782
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This appointment, asalfothevery wordsofthedeed of the infeoffment, (ftill extant) in which the con - veyance is to the bifhop abfolute and unconditional, confute a report too haftily taken up by fome hif - torians, that this caftle and barony were only given to the bifhop in truft for William the baftard above -
A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... 1778
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John Hoofimi the fon was a baftard* and that WiHiiun Mariwar - ing waafole heir to Mattery.
The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire 1778
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Where not mentioned, only a certain baftard child born of the body of A; and two j-ilices tne or der of feffions, becaufe there being an order of twojuftices before, the have made an f efi - J0ns na d no iurifdiction but upon appeal, order, the let J «-i n-nij fions have no jurifdiction, but upon appeal.
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If a man is The defendant was adjudged by two juftices to be the reputed father of adjudged by • a baftard child, purfuant to the ftatute of 1 8 Eliz. and ordered to pay, &c.
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The material objection taken to this plea is, whether or no the putative father of a baftard child can by the law of England take his baftard child from the parifh?
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One having a baftard child, upon a complaint made of this at the quarter - quarter f e r. feflions, it was referred, according to law, unto the two next juftices of fions. the peace, to have the examination and ordering thereof: The next two 2 Bulft. 3 i 5. juftices of the peace, were thefe, (5.)
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B RP. iJ 'c was ordered according to the firft order, That he fnould be accounted the geon's cafe, reputed father of the baftard, and fhould keep it -, and that if he did not perform it, he fhould be apprehended and committed, and thereupon being apprehended and committed, and all this matter returned, the court held,
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