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Middx
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to wit
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aged about 24 years on her Oath says she never
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was married Rented House or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired
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with one Mr. Holloway an attorney in Breams
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Buildings in the Liberty of the
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for one year at the yearly
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Wages of Eight Guineas hath quitted her said Service upwards of
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18 Months ago since which time she hath gained no or. Settlement
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in
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Denzell Street
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in the Parish of
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St. Clement Danes
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in the Liberty of
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which has since been baptized by the name of
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Lydia
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she being poor
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& unable to maintain the same And further says that one
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to Mr. Holloway in
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and who
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Tottenham
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is the Father thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge
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of her Body at her said Masters House some time in the Month of
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May 1781 and at sevl. difft. times afterwards at one of which times
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he got her with Child of the Female Bastard Child of which she
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was so delivered as aforesaid And that the said
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Thos. Wilby
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and no other Person did beget the same and that he is the real
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15th.
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day of Augt. 1783
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Jno. Machin
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Elizabeth Lyre
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