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aged about Thirty four Years
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on her Oath Says she is the Widow of
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has been Dead upwards of Two Years Says her said late
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Husband Rented and lived in a House in
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in the Liberty of
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Westmr at the Yearly Rent of Twenty five Pounds and lived therein upwards
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of one Year and an half and then her said Husband died
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Says that after her said Husbands Death she never Rented
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House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year
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And further upon her Voluntary Oath says that on
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the Twenty fourth day of August last past she was
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delivered of a Female Bastard Child which was still born
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in the House of Mrs. Poole the Parish Nurse in Clements Lane
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in the sd. Parish of Saint Clement Danes Says that one
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Robert Graves
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late a Prisoner in
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had
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Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the Month
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of December 1768 and at several other subsequent times
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afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of
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the Female Bastard Child of which she was delivered as
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and no other
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Person did beget the same and that he is the real and true
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Father thereof
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Sworn this
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