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<p n="439"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex <lb></lb>
& <lb></lb>
Westminster}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n439-101">Mary Bissell</rs>
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aged about Twenty five Years<lb></lb>
now living at No.15 <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo578">Vere Street</rs>
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on her Oath Says<lb></lb>
she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes<lb></lb>
Says she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35810_occ172">Servant</rs>
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with Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n439-100">Nelson<lb></lb>
Oilman</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo579">Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo580">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in <lb></lb>
the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo581">Middlesex</rs>
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for 14 Months at the Yearly Wages<lb></lb>
of Six pounds hath quitted her said Service about Six Months<lb></lb>
ago since which time she hath gained no other Settlement<lb></lb>
And further on her Voluntary Oath Says she is Pregnant with <lb></lb>
Child or Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard<lb></lb>
or Bastards and to become Chargable to the said Parish of <lb></lb>
St. Clement Danes<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo582"></rs>
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And further Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n439-2">James Batty</rs>
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a <lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35810_occ173">Butcher</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo583">Clare Markett</rs>
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is the Father thereof he having had <lb></lb>
Carnal knowledge of her Body at her Lodgings in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo584">Holles Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
sometime in the Month of September last but the Particular <lb></lb>
day she does not now remember and at sevl. different times<lb></lb>
afterwards at One of which times he got her with Child of the<lb></lb>
Child<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
or Children of which she is now Pregnant and that <lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n439-3">James Batty</rs>
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and no other Person did beget the same <lb></lb>
and that he is the real and true Father thereof.</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35810_date141">24th. day <lb></lb>
of March 1784</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> R Butler</hi>
</hi>
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<p n="441">her <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n441-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Bissell</rs>
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mark</p>
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