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Indirect

Family impostures or offences against genealogy
i:e: Wrongful non investment, interception, divestment,
usurpation or investment of paternity, filiation &c or other condition in
life or the and the rank and property that belongs to it.

Its efficacy Against offences of this description
deserves to be mentioned separately it is of peculiar
efficacy wherever the title to the right individual's
Natural marks which when they happen to present
themselves are treasured up with so much
anxiety are but the incidental & precarious succedaneum as it
were of the proposed artificial ones. No changing
of children at nurse: no child-stealing: parental
tenderness might rest unmolested by such alarms.
No false Martin Guerres of (a); no false Count Comte de
Polans(b): no of Prince (c): and what is to come
more higher no Lambert Simnels: No Perkin Warbecks:
no false Don Sebastians: no false Demetrius's: no Pugatchefs .
What we are upon now is no light matter:
for on points like this hangs turns the destiny of empires.

A man An imposter who for many years passed upon the wife and father
by a
One Arnaud du Tilh who passed himself for
one Martin Guerre and imposed upon the wife and family
of Martin Guerre's for a course of years. See Causes Celebres
par Gayot de Pitavel.

(b) A young vagabond who was deaf and dumb, and whose pretensions
to the characters he assumed were supported by the generosity
of the famous Abbè de l'Epèe who makes it his profession to teach
the art of conversing to persons labouring under those infirmities. The


Identifier: | JB/062/181/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 62.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

062

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

181

Info in main headings field

indirect legislation

Image

002

Titles

frauds, forgery, personation

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f9 / f10 / f11 / f12

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

20171

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