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<p n="223"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n223-1">Ann Plunkett</rs>
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aged about Sixty Years one of the <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35809_occ100">Paupers</rs>
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belonging to the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35809_geo330">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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maketh Oath that on or about the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35809_date75">17th.<lb></lb>
of September last</rs>
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a Female Child was found dropped at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35809_geo331"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35809_geo332">Workhouse door</rs>
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in Carey Street</rs>
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and on this Examinants looking <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
at the Child believed she knew the same tobe one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n223-2">Ann Matthews</rs>
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<lb></lb>
otherwise <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n223-24">Kennedys</rs>
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and the more so because that on<lb></lb>
Undressing the said Child a paper was found in its Bosom<lb></lb>
with the Name Wrote thereon <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n223-3">Mary Kennedy</rs>
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and after this<lb></lb>
Examinant had given herself some Trouble found out where<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n223-4">Ann Matthews</rs>
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otherwise <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n223-44">Kennedy</rs>
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lived and on<lb></lb>
applying to her and asking her how she could be so base and<lb></lb>
cruel to drop her Child the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n223-5">Ann Matthews</rs>
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otherwise<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n223-47">Kennedy</rs>
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Answered that the Child was sure to be taken care of<lb></lb>
where it was dropped That the Father of the said Child was the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
at sea and that on his return which she believed wod. be about<lb></lb>
Christmas she wod. take the Child away whither it was in the<lb></lb>
Workhouse or at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35809_geo333">Low Layton</rs>
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And Possitively acknowledged it<lb></lb>
to be her Child and that she had so dropped it as before relate</p>
<p n="224">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35809_date76">25th. day<lb></lb>
October 1779</rs>
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before } <obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="225"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35809_n225-1">Ann Plunkett</rs>
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