If it's one of those stored at the Lancashire Record Office, the usual format was a pre-printed form with spaces into which the Clerk Of The Court filled the details.
The usual details are:
The name of the mother and her township
The name of the purported father and his township and probably trade
The sex & possibly the name of the child
Usually the date of birth
The amount to be paid by the father to the Overseers of the Poor
The amount to be paid by the mother to the Overseers of the Poor (she was expected to work)
To be honest, the LRO index gives most of the genealogical detail for the records in their keeping.
The amazing thing is that there would be different pre-printed forms for variations for things such as the father not turning up to court. The court must have handled thousands of cases to make that worthwile.
