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<p n="604"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx to wit</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n604-1">Mary Briscoe</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n604-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
Aged about Twenty Seven<lb></lb>
Years on her Oath Says she never was married Rented<lb></lb>
House or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ320">Servant</rs>
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with one Mrs. Hancorn at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo940"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo941"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo942">the Craven head </rs>
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in<lb></lb>
Drury Lane </rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
Thirteen Months at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds<lb></lb>
hath quitted her said Service about Three Years ago<lb></lb>
and hath not since she quitted the same ever done<lb></lb>
any other Act whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement<lb></lb>
And further upon her Oath Says that on the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date216">16th. day<lb></lb>
of May last</rs>
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she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child<lb></lb>
in the Workhouse belonging to the said Parish which<lb></lb>
hath since been baptized by the name of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n604-16">James</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
is now Chargeable to the said Parish And further<lb></lb>
Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n604-2">Thomas Edwards</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ321">Journeyman Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
(who lodges at a Taylors in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo943"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo944">Stuarts Rents</rs>
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Drury Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
& who uses <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo945"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo946"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo947">the Sign of the Kings Head</rs>
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in Bear Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Leicester Fields</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_geo945" type="type" value="street"></interp>
) is the Father thereof he having had<lb></lb>
Carnal knowledge of her Body some time in Augt.<lb></lb>
last but the particular day she does not now remember<lb></lb>
and at sevl. different times afterwards at one of which<lb></lb>
times he got her with Child of the Male Bastard Child<lb></lb>
of which she was so delivered as afsd.</p>
<p n="605">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date217">9th. day<lb></lb>
of June 1778</rs>
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before}<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="606">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n606-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Briscoe</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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