16990108 Page 190 General Session of the Peace Armagh 8th January 1699 and Page 191 Vestry meeting 25 September 1705

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Set up at Church Board of each Parish to be together in the respective Parish Books there to be kept and preserved for the better information of those it shall succeed therein.

Eighthly, that due care be taken herein by all high and petty Constabulary and all other officers and Magistrates that all beggars whatsoever found wandering or begging out of their proper Parishes shall after due corrective given them as aforsaid by whipping or being put in the Stocks two days and two nights and giving them only bread and water to be sent of the next day towards the Parish they last lived in by ye space of three years or to the place where they were born and that such beggars shall be enjoyned by oath to return the next way to the said parish of their former abode and or birth.

Ninthly, And the better to prevent that in?easo (invasion) of beggars for the future if all children under fifteen years of age found begging or without parents or friends either cannot or will not maintain them, may by the Churchwardens of any parish by the appointment of a Justice of the Peace be bound as apprentices to any trade or to housewifery. Males to be bound to twenty-four years, females to twenty-one years or marriage or to any age that can be agreed for.

Tenthly, ye all putative ( means purported) alive fathers of bastard children, unmarried women with child or others suspected to become parish charges and all such as bring them in, ere come or entertain them in any Parish be apprehended and brought by the Constable or Churchwardens before any Justice to be examined and bound over to the good behaviour committed to the Goals or Houses of Correction or otherwise dealt with according to law unless they give security to undempnifie ( indemnify) the Parish. No person to be punished on those orders as are solicitous of beggars who distribute Doles Almes or money at a funeral only nor no Master of a Hospital or Almes House who lodge or entertain poor those affording to the Rules of their foundation only.

John Campbell, Clerk

Richard Smurfit Church

John Geary Wardens

Woollsey Smurfit

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At a Court of Vestry holden for the Parish of Sego, September 25 ^th 1705

It was agreed by the Minister, Churchwardens and Parishioners then present that the number of two hundred and forty five trees be applotted upon the parishioners, to be planted by them, according to a paper now in the Churchwardens hands, pursuant to an Act of Parliament lately past in this Kingdom.

John Campbell, Minister

Pattrick Harrison Church Warden

John McKnight Church Warden