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to wit
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Aged about Twenty five years on her Oath says
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as she believes she having heared
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that He died upwards of Ten Months ago and this Examinant upon
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she being poor and
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Unable to Maintain the same when born and that One
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Stone Coachman to the Oxford Past Coach did beget such Bastard
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the Kings Head
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at several times four Month prior to the time abovementioned in
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of the Child or Children of which she is now Pregnant and that
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the said Stone and no other person did beget the same
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and that He is the real and true Father thereof
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