An extract from the chapter headed "Poor" in "The Hampshire Repository: or, Historical, economical and literary miscellany" - published Winchester, 1800?

" ... bastardy ... We have only to contemplate the common process attendant on this offence, and to denote the degrading incidents visited upon delinquents subject to the corrections the the law inflicts upon it, in the road from the parish officer to the justice, and from the justice to the bridewell-keeper, to decide what share of modesty, decency, and delicacy can survive this debasing career...."