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Ann Thomas< no role > aged about 22 Years Removed by an
Order dated the 27th. day of February last from the
Parish of St. Martin in the Fields upon Oath saith she
never was Married That she lived a Yearly hired
Servant with Mrs. Newell at the back side of St. Clements
and the Corner of Exeter Court in the Parish of St. Clement
Danes in the County of Middlesex for the Space of One
Year and upwards at the Yearly Wages of Four Pounds
Quitted the same about two Years and hath not since rented
any House or been a hired Servant for one year And
further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is great with
Child or Children which is or are likely to be Born a
Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargeable to the
said Parish of St. Clement Danes she being poor &
unable to provide for the same when Born And that
John Allen< no role > who keeps a Cheesemongers Shop in Bell Yard
near Temple Bar did beget such Child or Children he
having had carnal Knowledge of her Body in the
Month of July One thousand seven hundred and Sixty
and at several times since at which or one of which
times he did beget on her Body the Child or Children
with which she is now pregnant And that he the
said John Allen< no role > is the true and only Father thereof

Sworn the 2d. day of
March 1761 Before} Fran: Bedwell< no role >

The mark [mark] of Ann Thomas< no role >