Anno vicesimo primo Jacobi Regis, &c. an act to prevent the destroying and murthering of bastard children. City of London (England). This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49078 of text R42145 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A49078 Wing L2887K ESTC R42145 ocm 24038244

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 eng Infanticide -- England -- London. London (England) -- History -- 17th century. eebo Anno vicesimo primo Jacobi Regis, &c. An Act to prevent the destroying and murthering of bastard children. England and Wales. 1680 2 566 9 0 0 0 0 0 159.01 F The rate of 159.01 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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Anno vicesimo primo Jacobi Regis , &c. An Act to prevent the Destroying and Murthering of Bastard Children .

WHEREAS many Lewd Women that have been delivered of Bastard Children , to avoid their shame and to escape punishment , do secretly bury or conceal the Death of their Children ; and after , if the Child be found dead , the said Women do alledge that the said Child was born dead , whereas it falleth out some times ( although hardly it is to be proved , ) that the said Child or Children were Murthered by the said Women their lewd Mothers , or by their assent or procurement .

For the preventing therefore of this great mischief , Be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament , that if any Women after one month next ensuing the end of this next Session of Parliament , be delivered of any Issue of her body , Male or Female ; which being born a live , should by the Laws of this Realm be a ●astard , and that she endeavour privately either by drowning or secret burying thereof , or any other way , either by her self or the procuring of others , so to conceal the death thereof , as that it may not come to light , whether it were born alive or not , but be concealed ; In every such case , the said Mother so offending shall suffer Death , as in case of murther , except such Mother can make proof by one Witness at the least , that the Child ( whose death by her so intended to be concealed . ) was born dead .

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HIS Majesties Iustices here present , taking notice of the frequency of Murthering of Bastard Children , by their Lewd Mothers ; for the better preventing thereof , do think fit , agree and order , that the Statute above mentioned be Printed at the charge of this City , and be sent to the Ministers of the sevrral Parish Churches within this City and the Liberties thereof ; who are desired to cause the same to be openly Read in their Churches , four times in a Year , after Morning-Prayer , for the purpose aforesaid .

Wagstaffe .

Printed by Samuel Roycroft , Printer to this Honourable City , 1680.