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Middx
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to wit
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Sarah Miller
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Aged about Twenty Six Years on her
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Oath Says she never was Married, Rented House or paid Taxes, Says
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She lived a Hired Yearly
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with one Mr.
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Samuel Edwards
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Wine Merchant
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, in
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Beaufort Buildings
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for fourteen Months or thereabouts as
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the Yearly Wages of Six pounds; hath Quitted her said Service about
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Three Weeks ago, and hath never since she Quitted the same Rented
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otherwise gained any Subsequent Settlement, And further upon
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her Voluntary Oath Says she is Pregnant with Child or Children
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which is, or are, likely to be born a Bastard, or Bastards, and to been
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Saint Clement Danes
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, (she being
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Poor and unable to maintain the same when borns) Says that one
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Simon Warren
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who now lives a
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with one Mr. Laddet
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No 3
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in Portman Square
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, is the father thereof, he having had Carnal
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Beaufort
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aforesaid, sometime in the beginning of January last
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the particular day she does not now remember, and at several
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different times afterwards, at one of which times he got her with Child
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of the Child, or Children, of which she is now pregnant, and that
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the said
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Simon Warren
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and no other person did beget the same, and
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Sworn this
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3d day
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of Augt 1775
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