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<p n="824"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n824-1">Catherine Davis</rs>
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Aged about Twenty Seven<lb></lb>
Years on her Oath Says she never was married Rented<lb></lb>
House or paid Taxes says she lived as a hired Yearly<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ459">Servant</rs>
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with one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n824-2">Gustavus Brandor</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ460">Esqr</rs>
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. in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1333"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1334">Crown<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in the Parish of St. Margaretts Westmr</rs>
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. upwards<lb></lb>
of Six Years at the Yearly Wages of Eleven pounds Eleven<lb></lb>
Shillings hath quitted her Said Service upwards of Two<lb></lb>
Years ago since which time she hath gained on other<lb></lb>
Subsequent Settlement And further upon her Voluntary<lb></lb>
Oath says she is pregnant with Child or Children which<lb></lb>
is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to<lb></lb>
become Chargable to the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1335">Saint Martin in the<lb></lb>
Fields </rs>
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she being poor and unable to maintain the same<lb></lb>
when born And that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n824-3">Robert Boycott</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ461">Gentleman</rs>
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did<lb></lb>
beget such Bastard Child or Children on her Body he<lb></lb>
having had Carnal Knowledge thereof in a house <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1336">near<lb></lb>
Charing Cross</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date303">29th. day of March last</rs>
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and at one other<lb></lb>
time afterwards and believes it was at the same house<lb></lb>
at one of which times he got her with Child of the Child<lb></lb>
or Children of which she is now pregnant and that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n824-4">Robert Boycot</rs>
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& no other person did beget the same<lb></lb>
and that he is the real and true Father thereof</p>
<p n="825">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date304">22d. day<lb></lb>
of Decr. 1778</rs>
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before.}<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="826"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n826-1">Catharine Davis</rs>
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