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<p n="1118"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1129">Middlesex</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
Westmr.</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1118-1">Martha Edwards</rs>
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aged about Twenty one Years<lb></lb>
on her Oath Says she never was Married Rented<lb></lb>
House or paid Taxes Says she lived as a Yearly<lb></lb>
Hired Servant with <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1118-2">Nathaniel Davis</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1130">the Temple<lb></lb>
Coffee house</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1131">Devereux Court</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1132">Saint<lb></lb>
Clement Danes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1133">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upwards<lb></lb>
of Twelve Months at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds<lb></lb>
hath quitted her said Service about four Months ago<lb></lb>
& hath not since she quitted the same ever Rented House<lb></lb>
or paid Taxes And further upon her Voluntary Oath<lb></lb>
says she is Pregnant with Child or Children which is or<lb></lb>
are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards & to become<lb></lb>
Chargeable to the said Parish she being Poor and unable to<lb></lb>
maintain the same when born Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1118-4">Christopher<lb></lb>
Burn</rs>
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a Waiter at Dobneys Gardens <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo1134">Islington</rs>
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is the<lb></lb>
Father thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her<lb></lb>
Body in her said Masters House sometime in December<lb></lb>
last but the particular day she does not now remember<lb></lb>
only that it was on a Sunday and at sevl. different times<lb></lb>
afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of the Child<lb></lb>
or Children of which she is now Pregnant And that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1118-5">Christopher Burn</rs>
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and no other person did beget the<lb></lb>
same and that he is the real and true Father there of.</p>
<p n="1119">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35822_date306">7th. day of<lb></lb>
July 1772 </rs>
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before} <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1119-1">Tho Lane</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1120">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n1120-1">Martha<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Edwards</rs>
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mark</p>
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