Note 166 — Chapter VI · THE LABOURER IN 1795
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The unborn were the special objects of parish officers’ dread. At Derby the persons sent out under orders of removal are chiefly pregnant girls. (Eden, vol. ii. p. 126.) Bastards (see above) with some exceptions gained a settlement in their birthplace, and Hodge’s legitimate children might gain one too if there was any doubt about the place of their parents’ settlements.