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Westmr.
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Aged about Twenty One years On her Oath says
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She never was Married Rented House paid Taxes or ever lived
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a hired yearly Servant for One Year Says her Father
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William Palmer
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Rented and lived in a House in
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Change Court
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Saint Clement Danes
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upwards of
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four Years at the Yearly Rent of Eighteen Pounds hath quitted
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the said House about four years ago since which time he hath
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never Rented House or Tenement or gained any other
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Subsequent Settlement And further upon her Voluntary Oath
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says She is Pregnant with Child or Children which is or are
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likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
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Chargeable to the said Parish She being Poor and unable to
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Maintain the same when Born And further Says that One
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Thomas Fowler
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Elson
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an
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Apprentice to One Mr. Paul a Glazier
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in
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Water Lane
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Fleet Street
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London
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did beget such Bastard Child or
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Children on her Body he having had Carnal knowledge of her
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Body in One Mr. Jenkinsons House in
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New Exchange Court
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in the Strand
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sometime the latter End of June or the beginning
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of July last but the particular Day She does not now remember
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at which time he got her with Child of the Child or Children
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of which She is now Pregnant & that the said
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Thomas Fowler
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& no other person did beget the same & that he is the true Father thereof
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Sworn before me this
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22nd Feby. 1781
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Resworn the
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12th. day of
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Abrm Baley
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her
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Sarah
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Palmer
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Mark
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