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Westmr.
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to wit
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Martha Edwards
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aged about Twenty one Years
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on her Oath Says she never was Married Rented
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House or paid Taxes Says she lived as a Yearly
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Hired Servant with
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the Temple
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Devereux Court
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in the Parish of
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Saint
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Clement Danes
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in the
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County of Middlesex
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upwards
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of Twelve Months at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds
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hath quitted her said Service about four Months ago
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& hath not since she quitted the same ever Rented House
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or paid Taxes And further upon her Voluntary Oath
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says she is Pregnant with Child or Children which is or
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are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards & to become
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Chargeable to the said Parish she being Poor and unable to
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maintain the same when born Says that one
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Christopher
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Burn
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a Waiter at Dobneys Gardens
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Islington
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is the
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Father thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her
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Body in her said Masters House sometime in December
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last but the particular day she does not now remember
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only that it was on a Sunday and at sevl. different times
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afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of the Child
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or Children of which she is now Pregnant And that the
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Christopher Burn
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and no other person did beget the
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same and that he is the real and true Father there of.
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Sworn this
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7th. day of
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July 1772
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Tho Lane
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her
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Martha
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Edwards
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