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<p n="171"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr. ss</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n171-1">Phebe Hughes</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35822_n171-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
aged about Nineteen Years on her<lb></lb>
Oath says she never was married or ever Rented House<lb></lb>
paid Taxes was an <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35822_occ42">Apprentice</rs>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35822_occ42" type="occupation" value="Apprentice"></interp>
or lived a hired Yearly<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35822_occ43">Servant</rs>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35822_occ43" type="occupation" value="Servant"></interp>
for one year And further upon her Voluntary<lb></lb>
Oath says she is pregnant with Child or Children<lb></lb>
which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards<lb></lb>
and to become Chargeable to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo120">Saint<lb></lb>
Clement Danes</rs>
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she being poor and unable to maintain<lb></lb>
the same when born Says that one <del>Peter</del>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n171-3">James Meesinck</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a Scene Painter, belonging to <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo121">Drury Lane Playhouse</rs>
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<lb></lb>
had Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime the<lb></lb>
beginning of January last past and at several Different<lb></lb>
times afterwards at one of which times he got her<lb></lb>
with Child of the Child or Children of which she is<lb></lb>
now Pregnant and that the said <del>Peter</del>
James Meesinck<lb></lb>
and no other person did beget the same and that he<lb></lb>
is the real and true Father thereof.</p>
<p n="172">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35822_date34">17th. day of<lb></lb>
October 1769</rs>
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before me}<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="173"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n173-1">Phebe<figure rend="mark"></figure>
hughes</rs>
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