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Aged abt. Twenty five Years Upon Oath says she
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was never Married and that she lived a Yearly Servt. with Mr.
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Gibbison, in
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for
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one year & upwards at the Yearly Wages of five pounds & hath
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quitted her sd. Service abt. Seven Months and further upon
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her Voluntary Oath Saith that she is pregnant with Child or
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or Children wch is likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards.
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and to become chargeable to the sd. parish of St. Clemt. Danes
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she being poor & unable to maintaine the same when Borne
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Says Wm. Bending a
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did begett the sd. Child or,
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Children on her Body haveing had Carnall knowledge of her
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in the month of June
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last at the house of Mr.
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Saml.
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Smith
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in the Butcher Row in the sd. parish of
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where this Examinant then Lodged & at Sevll. other times
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since at one of wch times he got her with Child of the sd.
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Bastard Child or Children with wch she is now pregnant
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Wm. Bending
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reall father thereof
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Sworne the
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