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August 20th 1793</p>
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and<lb></lb>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Settlement</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Pregnancy</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Reputed<lb></lb>
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(to wit) <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n473-1">Hannah Bear</rs>
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aged<lb></lb>
eighteen years and upwards Upon<lb></lb>
Oath saith that she never was Married that<lb></lb>
she lived as an hired yearly Servant with<lb></lb>
Mr. Jones in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo401">Carey Street</rs>
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Clement Danes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo403">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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for a year and<lb></lb>
upwards at the Annual Wages of six pounds<lb></lb>
that she quitted that service about five years<lb></lb>
ago and hath not obtained any subsequent legal<lb></lb>
Settlement to the best of her knowledge or belief<lb></lb>
And this Examinant Upon her Oath further<lb></lb>
saith that she is now pregnant with a Child or<lb></lb>
Children which is or are likely to be born a<lb></lb>
Bastard or Bastards and to become chargeable<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo405">parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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when<lb></lb>
born And that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n473-3">Thomas Appleyard</rs>
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who has been<lb></lb>
lately pressed and is as She believes now in his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Service is the only real true father of<lb></lb>
the said Child or Children where with she is so<lb></lb>
pregnant as aforesaid he having had carnal<lb></lb>
knowledge of this Deponents Body first <del>in or</del>
<lb></lb>
about <del>the</del>
three years ago and several times<lb></lb>
between that and the Month of <del>June</del>
May last<lb></lb>
at some or one of which <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
times he did beget<lb></lb>
the said Child or Children thereon and that he<lb></lb>
and no one else is the real true father</p>
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