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<p n="1196"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1196-1">Eliz: Meadows</rs>
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Aged about Twenty five Years on<lb></lb>
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid<lb></lb>
Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with one Mr.<lb></lb>
Wermell at the Sign of the Sun near <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1208">Clements Inn Gate</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1209">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1210">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
Three Years at the Yearly Wages of Three Pounds hath quitted<lb></lb>
her said Service upwards of Six Years ago and hath not since<lb></lb>
she quitted the same ever Rented House paid Taxes or lived an<lb></lb>
hired Yearly Servant for one Year And further Says that on<lb></lb>
the 23d. day of December 1768 she was delivered of a Female<lb></lb>
Bastard Child in the House of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1196-3">Andrew Thomas</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1211">Drury<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1212">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr. which hath since been Baptized by the<lb></lb>
name of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1196-4">Ann Meadows</rs>
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Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1196-5">Michael Charles</rs>
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a Dealer<lb></lb>
in Coals in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1213">Little Drury Lane</rs>
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is the Father of the said Female<lb></lb>
Bastard Child he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body<lb></lb>
in the House of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1196-6">Michael Charles</rs>
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sometime in<lb></lb>
the Month of March 1768 but the particular Day she does not<lb></lb>
now remember and at sevl. Different times after at one or<lb></lb>
which times he got her with Child of the Female Bastard Child<lb></lb>
of which she was so delivered and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1196-7">Michael Charles</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and no other person as the real and true father thereof</p>
<p n="1197">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35822_date329">2d. day of<lb></lb>
October 1772</rs>
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before me} <obscured></obscured>
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<p n="1198">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1198-1">Eliz:<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Meadows</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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