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<p n="70">The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65421_n70-1">Elizabeth Bigg</rs>
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Wife of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65421_n70-2">Richd. Biggs</rs>
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taken upon Oath th<obscured></obscured>
27th. Pay of<lb></lb>
May 1741</p>
<p n="71">Who saith that her sd. Husband 29 Years ago<lb></lb>
or thereabouts lived as a Yearly hired Servt. with <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65421_n71-45">Thos.<lb></lb>
Legg</rs>
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Farmer who then kept Cheesbury Farm in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65421_geo46">Little Bedwin</rs>
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in the County of Wills with<lb></lb>
whom he Continued Two years at the Wages of<lb></lb>
Fifty Shillings for the first year & three Pounds<lb></lb>
for the last year and that he never Rented a House<lb></lb>
or Land of £10 P Annd nor hath he been a yearly<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65421_occ35">Servt</rs>
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. since, & this Deponent lastly saith that phe<lb></lb>
was Married to her said Husband at the Parish<lb></lb>
Church of St. Margaret Westmr. on the 8th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1719 & she further saith not</p>
<p n="72">Sworn at Westmr.<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65421_n72-1">Ricd. Manley</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="73">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65421_n73-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Biggs</rs>
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