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Middlesex
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Aged about Twenty Eight
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years on her Oath Says she is the
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Robert
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who died in
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St. Clement Danes
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about five years ago and by whom
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Aged about
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Six years Says that since her said Husband Death
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she never Rented House paid Taxes or otherwise gained
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any Subsequent Settlement And further upon her
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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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John Daney
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a
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is the
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Father thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge of her
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Body sometime in the Month of November last but
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the particular day she does not now remember and
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at Sevl. times afterwards at one of which times he
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got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
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she is now pregnant and that the said
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and no other person did beget the same and that
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he is the real and true Father thereof
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10th. day
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Abrm. Baley
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her
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Mary
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Middleton
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