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Aged about Twenty One years on her Oath says
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her Father
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but whither he ever served
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any Apprenticeship she does not know neither does she know from
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what Parish or Place in Gloucestershire he came from or when
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her said Father settlement was and further on her Voluntary
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Oath says she is Pregnant with Child or Children which is or
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she being
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Poor and Unable to maintain the same when born and
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that One
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William Green
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in
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did beget such Bastard
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the Talbot Inn
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some time in the Month of October last but the particular
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Days or times she cannot sett forth and at several different
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times afterwards at One of which times he got her with Child
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of the Child or Children of which she is now Pregnant and that
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and no other Person did beget the same
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1st. day
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of June 1781
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