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<p n="773"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n773-1">Diana Reed</rs>
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Aged about 19 Years on her Oath Says<lb></lb>
she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes Says<lb></lb>
she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ426">Servant</rs>
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with one Mr. Waters an<lb></lb>
Attorney in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1238"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1239"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1240">Clements Inn</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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in the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. for one Year and an half<lb></lb>
at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds hath quitted her said<lb></lb>
Service about Two Years ago since which time she hath<lb></lb>
gained no other Subsequent Settlement And further upon<lb></lb>
her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant with Child or<lb></lb>
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or<lb></lb>
Bastards and to become Chargable to the said Parish<lb></lb>
she being poor and unable to maintain the same when<lb></lb>
born And that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n773-2">Mathew Coulthurst</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ427">Attorney</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1241"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1242">No. 5</rs>
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in the Inner Temple Lane</rs>
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is the Father thereof he<lb></lb>
having had Carnal Knowledge of her Body at his the said Mr.<lb></lb>
Coulthurst's Chambers in the Month of March last but the<lb></lb>
particular Day she does not now remember and at<lb></lb>
sevl. different times afterwards at one of which times he got<lb></lb>
her with Child of the Child or Children of which she is<lb></lb>
now pregnant and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n773-3">Mathew Coulthurst</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
no other person did beget the same and that he is the<lb></lb>
real and true Father thereof</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date284">27th. day<lb></lb>
of October 1778</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n774-14">Abrm Baley</rs>
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</hi>
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<p n="775"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n775-1">Diana Reed</rs>
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