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<p n="626"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
Westmr.}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n626-1">Esther Robertson</rs>
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Aged upwards of Twenty<lb></lb>
Year on her Oath Says she never was married Rented<lb></lb>
House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one<lb></lb>
Year Says her Father Rented and lived in a House in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo972"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo973">Stanhope Street</rs>
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in the Parish of St. Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at the Yearly Rent of Twenty four pounds hath quitted<lb></lb>
the said House upwards of fifteen Years ago and hath<lb></lb>
not since he quitted the same ever Rented House paid<lb></lb>
Taxes or done any or Act whereby to gain a Subsequent<lb></lb>
Settlement And further upon her Voluntary Oath says<lb></lb>
she is Pregnant with Child or Children which is or are<lb></lb>
likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become<lb></lb>
chargable to the said Parish she being poor and unable<lb></lb>
to maintain the same when born Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n626-2">Thos.<lb></lb>
Mason</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ362">Journeyman Taylor</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ363">Foreman</rs>
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to Mr. Bass a<lb></lb>
Taylor in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo974"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo975">Pickering Court</rs>
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St. James's Street</rs>
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and who now<lb></lb>
uses <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo976"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo977">the Kings Arms </rs>
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in Houghton Street </rs>
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is the Father<lb></lb>
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body<lb></lb>
on <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date222">Wednesday the 27th. of July</rs>
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last at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo978"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo979">the one Bill Inn</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Strand</rs>
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and at sevl. Different times afterwards at different<lb></lb>
Places at one of which times he got her with Child of the<lb></lb>
Child or Children of which he is now pregnant and that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n626-52">Thos. Mason</rs>
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and no other person did beget the same<lb></lb>
and that he is the real and true Father thereof.</p>
<p n="627">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date223">7th. day<lb></lb>
of Novr. 1774</rs>
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before} <obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="628"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n628-1">Esther Robertson</rs>
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