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<p n="253"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n253-1">Elizabeth Davis</rs>
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Aged about 25 Years Upon Oath saith She<lb></lb>
is the Widow of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n253-2">Thomas Davis</rs>
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and that her said late Husband hath<lb></lb>
been dead about four Years Says She is pregnant with Child or Children<lb></lb>
which is likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become<lb></lb>
Chargeable to the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo267">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo268">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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where She now Lodges She being poor & unable to maintain<lb></lb>
the same when born Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n253-3">Thomas Smith</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35813_occ84">Merchant</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
lives in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo269">Nevill's Court Fetter Lane</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo270">Parish of St. Dunstan</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the West London had carnal knowledge of her Body at a publick<lb></lb>
House in Holborn (but the Sign She cannot now particularly<lb></lb>
remember) Sometime in the Month of May last at which time<lb></lb>
her got her with Child of the Child or Children of which she is now<lb></lb>
pregnant</p>
<p n="254">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35813_date70">21st. Day of<lb></lb>
January 1756</rs>
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before} <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n254-1">Theodr Sydenham</rs>
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<p n="255">The mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n255-1">Elizth. Davis</rs>
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