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<p n="671"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
Westminster</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n671-1">Mary Dax</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n671-1" type="surname" value="DAX"></interp>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n671-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
Aged about Twenty five years on<lb></lb>
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or<lb></lb>
paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ359">Servant</rs>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_occ359" type="occupation" value="Servant"></interp>
with<lb></lb>
Mr. Davison a Taylor in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1055"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1056"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1057"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1058">Fountain Court</rs>
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Strand</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for fifteen Months at the Yearly Wages of four pounds<lb></lb>
hath quitted her said Service about Ten Months ago<lb></lb>
since which time she hath gained no other subsequent<lb></lb>
Settlement And further on her Oath Says that on the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date246">first day of July last</rs>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_date246" type="date" value="17780701"></interp>
she was delivered of a Male Bastard<lb></lb>
Child in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1059"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1060">Work house</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_geo1060" type="type" value="site"></interp>
belonging to the Parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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which has since been<lb></lb>
baptized <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n671-14">Thomas</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n671-14" type="surname" value="DAX"></interp>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n671-14" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and is become Chargable to the said<lb></lb>
Parish And that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n671-2">James Madan</rs>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n671-2" type="given" value="JAMES"></interp>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n671-2" type="surname" value="MADAN"></interp>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n671-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
late a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ360">Porter<lb></lb>
to a China Man</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1061">Thames Street</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_geo1061" type="type" value="street"></interp>
is the Father<lb></lb>
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body<lb></lb>
sometime about the Middle of Septr. last in her said<lb></lb>
Masters House and at sevl. different times afterwards<lb></lb>
at one of which times he got her with Child of the<lb></lb>
Male Bastard Child of which she was so delivered as afsd.<lb></lb>
And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n671-3">James Madan</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n671-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and no other person<lb></lb>
did beget the same and that he is the real and true<lb></lb>
Father thereof</p>
<p n="672"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date247">3d day of Augt<lb></lb>
1778</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n672-58">Sampn. Wright</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n672-58" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="673">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n673-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Dax</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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