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<p n="809"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n809-1">Jane Johnson</rs>
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Aged about Twenty five<lb></lb>
Years on her Oath says she never was Married Rented<lb></lb>
House or paid Taxes says she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ447">Servant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with one Mr. Poole Attorney in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1305"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1306"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1307"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1308">Palsgrave Place</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes </rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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upwards of One Year at the Yearly Wages<lb></lb>
of Six Guineas hath quitted her said Service about<lb></lb>
Nine Months ago since which time she hath gained<lb></lb>
no other subsequent Settlement And further on her<lb></lb>
Oath Says she was delivered of a Female Bastard<lb></lb>
Child in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1309">Westmr. new lying in Hospital</rs>
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on the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date297">12th. day<lb></lb>
of August last</rs>
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which has since been baptized by the<lb></lb>
Name of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n809-14">Johanna Mary</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35808_n809-14" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
and is likely to become Chargable<lb></lb>
to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1310">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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she being<lb></lb>
Poor and unable to maintain the same And that one Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n809-2">George Boswell</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ448">Attorney at Law</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1311"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1312"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1313">Witton Hall</rs>
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near<lb></lb>
Birmingham</rs>
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in the County of Warwick </rs>
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is the Father<lb></lb>
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body in<lb></lb>
her said Masters House some time in the Month of<lb></lb>
November 1777 but the particular day she does not now<lb></lb>
remember and at several different times afterwards at one<lb></lb>
of which times he got her with Child of the Female Bastard<lb></lb>
Child of which she was so delivered as aforesaid And that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n809-3">George Boswell</rs>
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& no other person did beget the<lb></lb>
same and that he is the real & true Father thereof</p>
<p n="810"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date298">5th. Day of<lb></lb>
Decr. 1778</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> M Addington.</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="811"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n811-1">Jane Johnson</rs>
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