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aged about 25 years upon Oath says She is the
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and that he said late Husband hath been
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dead about four Years and further upon her voluntary Oath says
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that on the fourth day of February last she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child
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in the Liberty of
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and which hath since been baptized
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Thomas
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& is still living &
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likely to become Chargeable to the said Parish of
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She being poor and unable to maintain the same Says
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Thomas Smith
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who lives in Nevills
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Court Fetter Lane in the
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in the West
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London had carnal knowledge of her Body at a publick House
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in Holborn (but the Sign She cannot now particularly remember)
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sometime in the Month of May last at which time he got her
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with Child of the Male Child she was delivered of as aforesaid
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is the true and real Father
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Sworn the
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