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Yearly
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in
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the County of Middx for One Year at the Yearly Wages
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of Six pounds hath quitted said Service upwards
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of five Months and hath not since Rented house or
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paid Taxes And further upon her Voluntary
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Oath says that on the 17th. day of March last she was
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delivered of a Male Bastard Child in the house of Mrs. Poole
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(one of the parish Nurses of the said Parish) in Clements
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Lane in the aforesaid Parish of
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which
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Richard Chapman
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near Bull Stairs
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Southwark
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did beget the said Male Bastard Child of
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which she was delivered as aforesaid he having had
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Carnal knowledge of her body sometime in the
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Month of May 1764 and at several other times since
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at one of which times he got her with Child of the Male
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Bastard Child of which she was delivered as aforesaid
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Richard Chapman
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April 1765
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Barth: Hammond
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