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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35812_n472-2">Grace Ford</rs>
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aged 23 Years upon her Oath saith<lb></lb>
she never was married and that she lived a<lb></lb>
Yearly Servant with Lord Castlemain at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35812_geo418">Epping<lb></lb>
Forest</rs>
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in Essex<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
at the yearly wages<lb></lb>
of Five Pounds for the Space of one Year<lb></lb>
that she quitted her sd. Service about 18 Months ago<lb></lb>
and has not since rented ten pounds by the<lb></lb>
Year paid parish taxes nor lived a yearly<lb></lb>
Servant for one Year and this Examinant<lb></lb>
further upon her voluntary Oath Saith that<lb></lb>
she is<del>the</del>
pregnant with Child or Children<lb></lb>
which is likely to be born a bastard or bastards<lb></lb>
& to become Chargeable to the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35812_geo419">Parish of<lb></lb>
St Clement Danes</rs>
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where she now Lodges<lb></lb>
she being poor and unable to maintain<lb></lb>
the same when born and that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35812_n472-1">Richard<lb></lb>
Bates</rs>
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a Drawer at the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35812_geo420">Union Coffee house</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the sd. Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35812_geo421">St Clemt. Danes</rs>
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did beget<lb></lb>
the said bastard Child or Children on her body</p>
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