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Who upon her Oath saith yt. her Husband hath
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Absconded from her & hath been abroad & beyond the Seas for these 7
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Years last past or more And this Examint. hath not since her sd. Husband
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neither doth she know whether he is liveing or Dead And this Examint.
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further upon her Voluntary Oath saith that on the 28th. Day of June
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last she was delivered of a Female Bastard Child at one Mrs. Shaws
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wch hath since
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look after his House in the Sumer time
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he the sd. Wm. Noxe at ye. same time being
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Servt
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Brackley there became acquainted with her & had Carnall Knowledge
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of her Body in bed at ye. sd. House Sevll. times in the Months of
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Augst. & Septr. in the Year 1738 at one of wch times he gott her
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with Child of the sd. Female Bastard Child wch she was delivered
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true & reall Father thereof & yt. she is now Poor & not able
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to maintaine the same
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