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aged about 18 years upon
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Oath says she never was Married and that she lived a
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Milford Lane in the Parish of
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for one Year and upwards at the
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Yearly Wages of Forty Shillings; quitted said Services abt.
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Three Years ago & hath not since Rented House paid
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And further upon her Voluntary Oath says
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she is pregnant with Child or Children which is or are
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likely to be born a bastard or bastards and to become
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, she
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being poor and unable to maintain the same when born
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William James
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(who is now abroad in the
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Service of the East India Company) had carnal
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knowledge of her Body in the Month of December 1765,
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and at several times Afterwards at one of which times
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he got her with Child of the Child or Children with which
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Sworn the
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26th. day
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