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Middlesex
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aged about Twenty Six Years on
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her Oath says she never was Married Rented House Paid
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Taxes or ever lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year
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with one Mr. Anderson a Taylor in
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Essex Street
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Parish of Saint Clement Danes
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her Voluntary Oath says she is Pregnant with Child
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or Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard
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she being Poor and Unable to Maintain the same wher
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born and that one Mr.
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John Ruitz
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who lodges at the
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Union Coffee House
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in the Strand
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had Carnal knowledge
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on the
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9th. day of May last
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John Ruitz
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& no other Person did beget the same and that he is the
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real and true Father thereof.
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her
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Jane
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