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Item. You shall neither cause nor suffer (as far as in you lies) 

 any woman to name, or put any other father to the child, hut 

 only him who is the true father thereof. 



Item. You shall not suffer any woman to pretend feign or 

 surmise herself to be delivered of a child where it is not so 

 indeed : nor to claim any other woman's child for her own. 



Item. You shall not suffer any child to be murthered, maimed, 

 or otherwise hurt, as much as you may : and so often as you 

 shall perceive any danger like to be or ensue, either in the 

 woman or in the child — in such wise as you shall be in doubt 

 what may happen thereon, you shall then forthwith in due 

 time send for other midwives and women expert in that 

 faculty, &; use their advice & consent in that behalf. 



Item. You shall not in any wise use or exercise any manner of 

 witchcraft, charm soVcery, invocation, or other prayers than 

 such as may stand with God's laws and the King's. 



Item. You shall not give counsel, nor minister any herb, 

 medicine, or potion, or any other thing to any woman to 

 procure abortion. 



Item. You shall not enforce any woman by pains, or by any 

 other ungodly ways or means to give you any more for 

 your pains than otherwise she would doe. 



Item. You shall not consent, agree, give, or keep counsel that 

 any woman be delivered secretly, but in the presence of two 

 or three honest women, and that there be always two or , 

 three lights ready if they may be had. 



Item. You shall be secret, and not open any matter appertaining 

 to your office in the presence of any man, unless necessity, or 

 very urgent occasion do constrain you so to doe. 



Item. If any child be dead-born, you yourself shall see it buried 

 in such secret place, as neither hog, dog, nor any other 

 beast may come unto it, and in such sort that it be not found 

 or perceived as much as you may, and shall not suffer any 

 such child to be cast in the jakes, or into any other 

 inconvenient place. 



Item. If you shall know any midwife using or doing anything 



