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aged about twenty three Years
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on her Oath says she never was Married Rented house
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paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year
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Says her Father
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Joseph Ryland
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Holles Street
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Clare Markett
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St. Clement Danes
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for three Years at the Yearly Rent
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of £22 hath quitted the said house about 16 Years ago
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and after quitting the same he never Rented house
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paid Taxes or gained any or- subseqt- Settlemt.
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And further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is
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pregnant with Child or Children which is or are likely
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to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
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Chargeable to the said parish of
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she being poor and unable to maintain the same when
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born Says that one
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Stephen Fish
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a
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Servant
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to the
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Seymour Leake
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at
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Axley Hall
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Markett
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is the Father thereof he having had
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carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the
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Month of June but the particular day she does not
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now remember at which time he got her with Child of
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the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant
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and that the said
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and no other person
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did beget the same & that he is the real & true father throf
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24th- Day
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of January 1778
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before
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