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Aged about Seventeen Years on her
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Oath says she never was Married Rented House Paid Taxes or ever served
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any Apprenticeship Says the Grandfather of this Examinant lived and
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Rented a House in
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for several Years at the Yearly of Twenty Pounds
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Subsequent Settlement as her said Father, and Mother has often informed
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her and which information she verity believes to be true and further
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Upon her Voluntary Oath saith she is Pregnant with Child or Children
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which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to
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(she
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being Poor and unable to Maintain the same when born,) And that
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One
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Henry Rogers
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Journeyman Taylor
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who now lives with his
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father in
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Stanbury Court
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is the Father therefore
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he having had Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime the
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latter end of May or the beginning of June but the Particular day
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she does not now remember and at several different times afterwards
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at one of which times he got her with Child of the Child or
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Children of which she is now Pregnant and that the said
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the real and true Father thereof.
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Witness
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