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to wit
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Aged about Twenty Three Gears on
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her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes
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Says she lived a hired Yearly
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with Mr. Holden on Apothecary
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in the Parish of
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for One whole Year at the Yearly Wages of Seven
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Pounds Twelve Shillings hath quitted her said Service upwards of Two Months ago
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since which time she hath gained no other Settlement and further
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on her Voluntary Oath Says that on the
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last she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child which hath
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since been baptized by the name of
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and is become
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Charles Roberts
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to Mr. Holden in the
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is the Father
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thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her body sometime
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in the Month of September last in her said Masters House in
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the Strand but the particular day she does not now remember
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and at sevl. different times afterwards at one of which times he got
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her with Child of the Male Bastard Child of which so delivered
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of July 1784
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Wm Kitchiner
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