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<p n="788"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx.</note>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n788-1">Mary Wells</rs>
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aged about 24 Years Upon Oath<lb></lb>
says she was never Married and that she lived a<lb></lb>
hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35820_occ289">Servant</rs>
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with Farmer Howard in<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo827">Redburn</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo828">Hertford</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for one Year and Upwards at the Yearly Wages<lb></lb>
of Twenty Shillings or thereabouts hath quitted<lb></lb>
said Service about twelve Years and hath not<lb></lb>
since Rented house paid Taxes or lived a<lb></lb>
hired Yearly Servant for one Year And further<lb></lb>
upon her Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant<lb></lb>
with Child or Children which is likely to be born<lb></lb>
a Bastard or Bastards and to become chargeable<lb></lb>
to the<del>said</del>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo829">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of Middx where she now lodges she<lb></lb>
being poor and Unable to Maintain the same<lb></lb>
when born says that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n788-3">Mattw. Blackbourne</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35820_occ290">Journey<lb></lb>
-man Painter</rs>
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had carnal knowledge of her body<lb></lb>
sometime in the Month of March last and at<lb></lb>
several other times since at one of which times<lb></lb>
he got her with Child of the Child or Children<lb></lb>
with which she is now pregnant and that the sd.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n788-4">Mattw. Blackbourne</rs>
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and no other Person did<lb></lb>
beget the same.</p>
<p n="789">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35820_date180">21st. Augst.<lb></lb>
1765</rs>
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. before} <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n789-1">Paul Vaillant</rs>
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<p n="790">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n790-1">Mary Wells</rs>
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