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<p n="143"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
to Wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n143-100">Mary Dax</rs>
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Aged about Twenty Eight years on her Oath<lb></lb>
Says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes Says<lb></lb>
she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35810_occ34">Servant</rs>
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with Mrs. Flynn in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo132">Norfolk<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo133">St. Clement Danes </rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo134">Middlesex</rs>
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upwards of 18 Months at the yearly Wages of £6<lb></lb>
hath quitted her said Service about 6 Months ago since which<lb></lb>
time she hath gained no other Settlement And further<lb></lb>
Says that on the 23d. day of March last past she was delivered<lb></lb>
of a Female Bastard Child in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo135">St. Georges Hospital</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo136">Hyde<lb></lb>
Park Corner </rs>
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which hath since been baptized <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n143-200">Elizth</rs>
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. and is<lb></lb>
become Chargeable to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo137">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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And further says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n143-2">John Edginton</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35810_occ35">footman</rs>
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to one<lb></lb>
Captain Perry who lately lived at Bromley in the County of Kent<lb></lb>
and who is now at the Town of Montgomery in the Principality<lb></lb>
of Wales & is Expected in Town very soon he the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n143-3">John<lb></lb>
Edington</rs>
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having had Carnal Knowledge of this Examinants<lb></lb>
Body in her said Mistresses House in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo138">Norfolk Street</rs>
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afsd. in<lb></lb>
the Month of June 1782 and at Sevl. different times afterwds.<lb></lb>
at one of which times he got her with Child of the Female<lb></lb>
Bastard Child of which she was so delivered as aforesaid and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n143-201">John Edington</rs>
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& no or. Person did beget the<lb></lb>
same & that he is the real & true father thereof.</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35810_date40">21st.<lb></lb>
day of July 1783</rs>
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<p n="145">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n145-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Dax</rs>
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mark</p>
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