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aged about Thirty five Years on her
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Oath says she never was Married Rented house or
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paid Taxes says she lived a hired yearly
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with one Mr. Smart an Attorney in
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for Fourteen Months or thereabouts at the Yearly
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Wages of £5 a year hath quitted her said Service
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Upwards of three years ago Since which time she
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hath gained no other Subsequent Settlement and
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further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is
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Pregnant with Child or Children which is or are
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likely to be born 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
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a
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day Labouring Man to
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one Mr. Welling a farmer
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near the Jews Harpe
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and who is now at
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in the County
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of Kent
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is the Father thereof he having had
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Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in
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October last but the Particular day she does
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not now Remember and at several different
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times afterwards at one of which times he got her
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with Child of the Child or Children of which she is
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and no other Person did beget the same and that
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Sworn this
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21st. day of
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Septr. 1778
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