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<p n="1077"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n1077-1">Mary Welch</rs>
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aged abt. 24 years upon Oath<obscured></obscured>
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Intermarried with <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n1077-7">Wm. Welch</rs>
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(who is now at Sea) at the Parish Church of<lb></lb>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo1082">Cornwall</rs>
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abt. 9 years since<del>that</del>
says he said<lb></lb>
Husband who lift her in abt. afortnight ofter her Mamagix<obscured></obscured>
never hat <obscured></obscured>
was born in Ireland and & that She Cannots give any Act.<lb></lb>
of the Settlement of her sd. Husband Says before her Intermarried<lb></lb>
with the said Wm.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
she lived a timed yearly Servant<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of a year with one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n1077-2">Robt. Ambleton</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo1083">Falmouth</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo1084">County of Cornwall</rs>
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aforesaid at the yearly Wages of<lb></lb>
£2..10s-& hath quitted her sd. Service abt. 6 years since & further<lb></lb>
upon her Voluntary Oath says She is pregant with Child or<lb></lb>
Childn. which is likely to be born a Bastard or Bastard<lb></lb>
& to become Chargeable to the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo1085">St. Clemt. Danes</rs>
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wher<obscured></obscured>
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She now lodgeth She being noon & unable to Maintain the same when ber & that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n1077-3">Geo: Cummings</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35813_occ394">Linnendr</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
who lives in the Old Cher<obscured></obscured>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo1086">City of London</rs>
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did beget the said Bastard Child or<lb></lb>
Childn. on her Body he the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n1077-4">Geo: Cummings</rs>
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has<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
had Carnal Knowledge of this Examinants Body at<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n1077-5">Walter Butler</rs>
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in Devereux Court in the<lb></lb>
Parish<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35813_geo1087">saint Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Month of February last at which time<lb></lb>
got her with Child of the Bastard Child or Childn. of a<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
she is now Pregnant And that he the said Geo: Comming<lb></lb>
& no other Person is the true real &<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Father thereof<lb></lb>
Middx to wit</p>
<p n="1078">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35813_date333">18th day<lb></lb>
of October 1756</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n1078-1">Barth: Hammond</rs>
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<p n="1079">The<lb></lb>
Mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35813_n1079-1">Mary Welch</rs>
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