46 MEMORANDA BY TITUS WHEVTCROFr, A.D. 1722. 



3. Mary Nuam's''' at Press Brook on the right hand of the 

 Bridge. 



As we ride to Chesterfield : — 

 4 Widow Dakeyne of Stannidge. Two bays, which none but 

 herself possesses. 



Overend Quarter : — 

 A house in Hodge Lane, possessed by " Dumb Nan." 



/IIMDwite's Xicence H.S). 1686. 



A true copy of my brother Leo's wife's Licence whose name 

 before he married her was Ellen Perkins. 



" Henry by Divine Permission Bishop of London to our Well- 

 beloved in Christ, Ellen Perkins, the wife of Richard Perkins of 

 y" Parish of S. Martin's in the Fields in the Co. of Middlesex, and 

 of our Diocese and jurisdiction of London, sendeth greeting in our 

 Lord God Everlasting. 



Whereas, by due examination of divers honest and discreet 

 women, we have found you the said Ellen Perkins, apt, able, and 

 expert to use and exercise the office, business, and function of a 

 midwife, We therefore by our authority, ordinary and Epall 

 {episcopal) do admit you thereunto, and give unto you full power 

 and License to occupie and exercise y° said office business and 

 function of a midwife within y" city Diocess & jurisdiction of 

 London, with y" best judgment care ami diligence that you may 

 or can in that behalfe both to poor and rich, straitly willing and 

 charging you to and for me to accomplish all things in and about 

 the same according to your oath thereupon made and given, 

 as foUoweth : 



Ffirst, you shall be diligent faithful and ready to help every 

 woman travailling with child, as well the poor as the rich, and shall 

 not then forsake the poor woman and leave her to go to the rich. 



* This person iierformed public penance in Ashover Church on April i6th, 

 1724, for her sin with "J. H.," when the Rev. Obadiah Bourne, Rector, 

 preached from S. John viii. 7, " He that is without sin among you, let him first 

 cast a stone at her." 



