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<p n="303"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n303-1">Elizabeth Davis</rs>
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aged about 25 years upon Oath says She is the <lb></lb>
Widow of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n303-2">Thomas Davis</rs>
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and that he said late Husband hath been<lb></lb>
dead about four Years and further upon her voluntary Oath says<lb></lb>
that on the fourth day of February last she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child<lb></lb>
in the House ofin Stanhope Street in <lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo329">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo330">Westminster</rs>
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and which hath since been baptized <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n303-5">Thomas</rs>
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& is still living &<lb></lb>
likely to become Chargeable to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo331">St. Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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She being poor and unable to maintain the same Says<lb></lb>
that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n303-3">Thomas Smith</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35813_occ104">Merchant</rs>
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who lives in Nevills<lb></lb>
Court Fetter Lane in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo332">Parish of St. Dunstan</rs>
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in the West<lb></lb>
London had carnal knowledge of her Body at a publick House<lb></lb>
in Holborn (but the Sign She cannot now particularly remember)<lb></lb>
sometime in the Month of May last at which time he got her<lb></lb>
with Child of the Male Child she was delivered of as aforesaid<lb></lb>
and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n303-4">Thomas Smith</rs>
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is the true and real Father<lb></lb>
thereof</p>
<p n="304">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35813_date85">5th. Day of<lb></lb>
March 1756</rs>
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