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<p n="204">Bastardy before Birth</p>
<p n="205"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo75">St Clement Danes</rs>
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<p n="206"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo76">Middlesex</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo77">Westminster</rs>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Settlemt</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Pregnancy</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Reputed<lb></lb>
Father</note>
(to wit) <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n206-1">Sarah Richards</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35827_occ11">Singlewoman</rs>
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aged<lb></lb>
twenty one years and upwards Upon Oath<lb></lb>
saith that she never was Married, she lived as an hired yearly Servt.<lb></lb>
with Mr Constable in Butcher Row in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo78">parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo79">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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Coffee Man for <del>about</del>
one year <del>and</del>
two Months<lb></lb>
& upwards at the Annual Wages of Seven<lb></lb>
pounds for the first Nine Months and Eight<lb></lb>
Guineas the residue of the time that she<lb></lb>
quitted his Service on or about the 20th. instant and<lb></lb>
hath not obtained any subsequent legal Settlement<lb></lb>
and this Deponent Upon her Voluntary Oath<lb></lb>
farther saith that she is now pregnant<lb></lb>
with a Child or Children <del>which</del>
and that the said Child or Children is or one<lb></lb>
likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<del>be and that</del>
to become chargeable to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo80">parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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and that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n206-2">Samuel<lb></lb>
Taylor</rs>
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a Walter at the said Mr Constable's of Butcher<lb></lb>
Row <del>on the said</del>
or the only real and true father<lb></lb>
of such Child or Children where with she is<lb></lb>
pregnant as <del>aforesaid</del>
aforesaid he having had<lb></lb>
Carnal knowledge of this Deponents Body <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
in or about the Month of December last and at<lb></lb>
several times since at some or one of which<lb></lb>
times he did beget the said Child or Children <del>there</del>
<lb></lb>
or the said Body of this Deponent and saith<lb></lb>
that she was not ever criminally connected</p>
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