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aged upwards of 22 Years
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upon Oath says she
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never was Married
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nor Ever Rented
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Ten Pounds by the Year nor was an Apprentice or
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Robt. Dixon
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Rented a house
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in the
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Parish of Old Elvet
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in the
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Bishoprick of Durham
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of the Yearly Rent of Ten
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Pounds and upwards for sevl. Years and further
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upon her Voluntary Oath says that on the 19th.
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day of January 1759 she was
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delivered
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of a Male
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Bastard
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Child
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in the house of Mrs. Gilken not in
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the Strand
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in the Parish of
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St. Clement Danes
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in the County
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of Middx. which has since been baptized by the Name
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of
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William Dixon Thong
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likely
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one
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Willm. Thong
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Attorney at Law
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who lives at
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the
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Whitehouse
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in
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Leicester fields
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did
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beget the said
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Child
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on her Body he having had Carnal Knowledge
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of her Body sometime in the Month of April 1758
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at sevl. times afterwards at one of which times he
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got her with Child of the Male Bastard Child of which
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she was delivered as aforesaid and that the said
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Wm. Thong
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and no other Person is the true & real
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thereof
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Sworn
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Novr. 1st. 1760
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Fran: Bedwell
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Elizabeth Dixon
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Upon Mr Barbers
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Complt. J: P:
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