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<p n="818"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n818-1">Sarah Miller</rs>
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Aged about Twenty Six Years on her<lb></lb>
Oath Says she never was Married, Rented House or paid Taxes, Says<lb></lb>
She lived a Hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ487">Servant</rs>
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with one Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n818-2">Samuel Edwards</rs>
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a <lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ488">Wine Merchant</rs>
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, in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1329"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1330"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1331">Beaufort Buildings</rs>
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, in the Parish of Saint Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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, in the County of Middlesex,</rs>
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for fourteen Months or thereabouts as<lb></lb>
the Yearly Wages of Six pounds; hath Quitted her said Service about<lb></lb>
Three Weeks ago, and hath never since she Quitted the same Rented<lb></lb>
House, paid Taxes lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year or any<lb></lb>
otherwise gained any Subsequent Settlement, And further upon<lb></lb>
her Voluntary Oath Says she is Pregnant with Child or Children<lb></lb>
which is, or are, likely to be born a Bastard, or Bastards, and to been<lb></lb>
Chargeable to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1332">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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, (she being<lb></lb>
Poor and unable to maintain the same when borns) Says that one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n818-3">Simon Warren</rs>
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who now lives a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ489">Servant</rs>
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with one Mr. Laddet <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1333"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1334">No 3</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in Portman Square</rs>
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, is the father thereof, he having had Carnal<lb></lb>
knowledge of her body in the said Mr. Edwards House in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1335">Beaufort<lb></lb>
Buildings</rs>
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aforesaid, sometime in the beginning of January last <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the particular day she does not now remember, and at several<lb></lb>
different times afterwards, at one of which times he got her with Child<lb></lb>
of the Child, or Children, of which she is now pregnant, and that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n818-4">Simon Warren</rs>
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and no other person did beget the same, and <lb></lb>
that he is the real and true father thereof.</p>
<p n="819">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date296">3d day<lb></lb>
of Augt 1775</rs>
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before}</p>
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