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<p n="469"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr-</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n469-87">Elizth- Ryland</rs>
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aged about twenty three Years<lb></lb>
on her Oath says she never was Married Rented house<lb></lb>
paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year<lb></lb>
Says her Father <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n469-71">Joseph Ryland</rs>
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Rented and lived in<lb></lb>
a house in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo724"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo725"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo726">Holles Street</rs>
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Clare Markett </rs>
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in the parish of<lb></lb>
St. Clement Danes</rs>
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for three Years at the Yearly Rent<lb></lb>
of £22 hath quitted the said house about 16 Years ago<lb></lb>
and after quitting the same he never Rented house<lb></lb>
paid Taxes or gained any or- subseqt- Settlemt.<lb></lb>
And further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is<lb></lb>
pregnant with Child or Children which is or are likely<lb></lb>
to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become<lb></lb>
Chargeable to the said parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo727">St Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
she being poor and unable to maintain the same when<lb></lb>
born Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n469-1">Stephen Fish</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ255">Servant</rs>
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to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ256">Revd</rs>
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- <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n469-55">Seymour Leake</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo728"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo729"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo730">Axley Hall</rs>
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near Stow<lb></lb>
Markett</rs>
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Suffolk</rs>
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is the Father thereof he having had<lb></lb>
carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the<lb></lb>
Month of June but the particular day she does not<lb></lb>
now remember at which time he got her with Child of<lb></lb>
the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant<lb></lb>
and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n469-2">Stephen Fish</rs>
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and no other person<lb></lb>
did beget the same & that he is the real & true father throf</p>
<p n="470"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date169">24th- Day<lb></lb>
of January 1778</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n470-1">Wm Kitchiner</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="471">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n471-58">Elizth-<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Ryland</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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