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Mother lives at No. 39. Mrs. Miles in
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Essex Street
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The Father did live at
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Main acts a
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Clerkenwell
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Clare non lives near Blackfryar
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and ye
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Edwd. Riley
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is a short Man wears his own Hair Dressd. Pig Tail a fair
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complexson light Hair is an Irishman birth has the Brogue in his Communication
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Saint Clement Danes
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28th. June 1787.
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Middx
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&
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Westmr.}
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to wit
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Susannah Giles
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Singlewoman
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aged twenty eight
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Years or thereabouts upon her Oath saith that she never was
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married, that she never Rented any House or Tenement of
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ten pounds a Year or paid taxes nor was ever bound as
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an Apprentice-Saith that she lived as an hired Yearly
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Servant with Mr. Stunt a Shoemaker in
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Devereux Court
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in the
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Parish of Saint
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Clement Danes
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in the
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County of Middlesex
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for upwards of two Years at the
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Yearly Wages of Eight Pounds, that she has quitted
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his Service about seven or eight Months ago, and has
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not since quitting the same done any Act whereby to
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the best of her Knowledge she may have gained or
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acquired any subsequent Settlement-And further
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this Examinant upon her voluntary oath saith that she
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is now pregnant with a Child or Children which is
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or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and
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to become chargeable to the Parish of
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Saint Clement
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Danes
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, she this Examinant being poor and unable
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to maintain the same when born and that
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Edward Riley
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who lived as a Footman with Mr. Maniac
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a
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Jeweller
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at
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Clerkenwell
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is the father of such
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Child or Children whereof she this Examinant is
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so pregnant he the said
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Edward Riley
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having had
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Carnal Knowledge of this Examinants Body in or about the
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Month of November 1786 and begotten the same
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thereon
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Sworn this
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28th.
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June 1787
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before me R Butler
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Susannah
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The Mark
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of
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Giles
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