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<p n="279"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n279-1">Ann Thomas</rs>
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aged about 22 Years <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ264">Removed</rs>
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by an<lb></lb>
Order dated the 27th. day of February last from the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo360">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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upon Oath saith she<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ265">never was Married</rs>
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That she lived a Yearly hired<lb></lb>
Servant with Mrs. Newell at the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo361">back side of St. Clements<lb></lb>
</rs>
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and the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo362">Exeter Court</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo363">St. Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo364">County of Middlesex</rs>
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for the Space of One<lb></lb>
Year and upwards at the Yearly Wages of Four Pounds<lb></lb>
Quitted the same about two Years and hath not since rented<lb></lb>
any House or been a hired Servant for one year And<lb></lb>
further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ266">great with<lb></lb>
Child</rs>
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or Children which is or are likely to be Born a<lb></lb>
Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargeable to the<lb></lb>
said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo365">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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she being poor &<lb></lb>
unable to provide for the same when Born And that<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n279-2">John Allen</rs>
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who keeps a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ267">Cheesemongers Shop</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo366">Bell Yard<lb></lb>
</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo367">Temple Bar</rs>
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did beget such Child or Children he<lb></lb>
having had carnal Knowledge of her Body in the<lb></lb>
Month of July One thousand seven hundred and Sixty<lb></lb>
and at several times since at which or one of which<lb></lb>
times he did <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ268">beget on her Body the Child</rs>
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or Children<lb></lb>
with which she is now <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ269">pregnant</rs>
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And that he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n279-3">John Allen</rs>
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is the true and only <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ270">Father</rs>
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thereof</p>
<p n="280">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35819_date75">2d. day of<lb></lb>
March 1761</rs>
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Before} <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n280-1">Fran: Bedwell</rs>
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<p n="281">The mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n281-1">Ann Thomas</rs>
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