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<p n="123"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n123-1">Elizabeth Swan</rs>
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aged about Thirty four Years<lb></lb>
on her Oath Says she is the Widow of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n123-2">Richd. Swan</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
has been Dead upwards of Two Years Says her said late<lb></lb>
Husband Rented and lived in a House in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo78">Wych Street</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo79">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr at the Yearly Rent of Twenty five Pounds and lived therein upwards<lb></lb>
of one Year and an half and then her said Husband died<lb></lb>
Says that after her said Husbands Death she never Rented<lb></lb>
House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year<lb></lb>
And further upon her Voluntary Oath says that on<lb></lb>
the Twenty fourth day of August last past she was<lb></lb>
delivered of a Female Bastard Child which was still born<lb></lb>
in the House of Mrs. Poole the Parish Nurse in Clements Lane<lb></lb>
in the sd. Parish of Saint Clement Danes Says that one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n123-5">Robert Graves</rs>
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late a Prisoner in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo80">the Fleet Prison</rs>
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had<lb></lb>
Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the Month<lb></lb>
of December 1768 and at several other subsequent times<lb></lb>
afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of<lb></lb>
the Female Bastard Child of which she was delivered as<lb></lb>
aforesaid And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n123-6">Robert Graves</rs>
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and no other<lb></lb>
Person did beget the same and that he is the real and true<lb></lb>
Father thereof</p>
<p n="124">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35822_date21">26th. day of<lb></lb>
Septr. 1769</rs>
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before me} R Butler</p>
<p n="125"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n125-1">Elizth Swan</rs>
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