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aged about 24 Years Upon Oath
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with Farmer Howard in
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Redburn
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in the County of
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for one Year and Upwards at the Yearly Wages
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of Twenty Shillings or thereabouts hath quitted
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said Service about twelve Years and hath not
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since Rented house paid Taxes or lived a
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hired Yearly Servant for one Year And further
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upon her Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant
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with Child or Children which is likely to be born
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a Bastard or Bastards and to become chargeable
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St. Clement Danes
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in the
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County of Middx where she now lodges she
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being poor and Unable to Maintain the same
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when born says that
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Mattw. Blackbourne
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a
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Journey
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-man Painter
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had carnal knowledge of her body
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sometime in the Month of March last and at
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several other times since at one of which times
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he got her with Child of the Child or Children
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with which she is now pregnant and that the sd.
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Mattw. Blackbourne
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beget the same.
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Sworn the
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21st. Augst.
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1765
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Paul Vaillant
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Mary Wells
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