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westminster
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of the yearly Rent of Thirty
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Pounds and lived in the same five years or thereabouts
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and during all that time paid Parochial Taxes Says She
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hath not since She quitted the said House in Vear Street
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rented Ten pounds a year or paid Parish Taxes Says
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She hath one Daughter named
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aged about 24
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in England for one
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