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Aged about 23 Years on her Oath
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says she never was Married, Rented a House or Served
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any Apprenticeship, says she lived a hired Yearly
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with one Mr Walker a Butcher in
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in the Liberty of Westmr
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for Eighteen Months, at the Yearly Wages of six pounds,
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has quitted that same Service upwards of two years ago,
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since which time she has never lived a hired yearly Servt,
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a twelvemonth at any one time, and further upon her
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Voluntary Oath says, she is pregnant with Child or Children
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which is on are likely to be born a bastard or bastards, and
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to become chargeable to the said Parish, (she being poor; and
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unable to Maintain the same (when born) and further says
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That one
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Thomas Manhood
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a
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Journeyman Weaver
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, is the
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Father thereof, he having had carnal knowledge of her body
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in her Master's House at
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aforesaid, sometime
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in June last, but the particular day she does not now
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Remember, and at several different times afterwards, at one
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of which times he got her with the Child or Children of which she
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Thomas Manhood
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no other person did beget the same, and that he is the real
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and true Father thereof
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28th day
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before
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R. Butler
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Mary Bennett
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