| Description | Recognizance made by Richard Fenwick and Charles Beck of Nosterfield and John Fenwick of Shipton near York, for the appearance of Richard Fenwick at the next Quarter Sessions as father of the bastard child of Elizabeth Morritt of Swainby singlewoman. Fenwick had been committed to the House of Correction at Northallerton for refusing to indemnify the township of Swainby with Allerthorpe or to enter into a recognizance to abide by any order made for the maintenance of Elizabeth Morritt's bastard child |