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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n716-1">Anna Maria Ayres</rs>
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aged about Thirty five Years on her<lb></lb>
Oath says she never was Married Rented house or<lb></lb>
paid Taxes says she lived a hired yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ388">Servant</rs>
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with one Mr. Smart an Attorney in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1134">Clements Inn</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for Fourteen Months or thereabouts at the Yearly<lb></lb>
Wages of £5 a year hath quitted her said Service<lb></lb>
Upwards of three years ago Since which time she<lb></lb>
hath gained no other Subsequent Settlement and<lb></lb>
further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is<lb></lb>
Pregnant with Child or Children which is or are<lb></lb>
likely to be born Bastard or Bastards and to become<lb></lb>
Chargeable to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1135">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
she being Poor and unable to Maintain the same<lb></lb>
says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n716-2">Wm Davis</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ389">day Labouring Man to<lb></lb>
one Mr. Welling a farmer</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1136">near the Jews Harpe<lb></lb>
House</rs>
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and who is now at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1137"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1138">Cox heath</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of Kent</rs>
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is the Father thereof he having had<lb></lb>
Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in<lb></lb>
October last but the Particular day she does<lb></lb>
not now Remember and at several different<lb></lb>
times afterwards at one of which times he got her<lb></lb>
with Child of the Child or Children of which she is<lb></lb>
now Pregnant and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n716-85">Wm. Davis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and no other Person did beget the same and that<lb></lb>
he is the real and true father thereof</p>
<p n="717">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date264">21st. day of<lb></lb>
Septr. 1778</rs>
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<p n="718"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n718-1">Anna Maria Ayres</rs>
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