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<p n="268">Before Birth</p>
<p n="269"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo148">St Clement Danes</rs>
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15th Octr. 1792</p>
<p n="270"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo149">Middlesex</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo150">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">Settlemt of<lb></lb>
the Woman</note>
<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">Pregnancy</note>
<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">Reputed Father</note>
(to wit) <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n270-1">Elizabeth Rainer</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35827_occ23">singlewoman</rs>
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aged 27<lb></lb>
years or thereabouts Upon Oath saith that she<lb></lb>
never was Married that she <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
was hired<lb></lb>
as a yearly Servant fourteen Months ago <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to<lb></lb>
Mr Toulmin <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo151">Essex Street</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo152">the Strand</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo153">parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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in the County of Middx<lb></lb>
at the yearly Wages of 9 Guineas, that she has <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
ever since such hiring lived <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
with the said Mr<lb></lb>
Toulmin as such hired Servant in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo154">Essex Street</rs>
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aforesaid and<lb></lb>
is not discharged from his said Service <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
And<lb></lb>
this Deponent upon her Voluntary Oath further saith<lb></lb>
that she is now pregnant with a Child or Children<lb></lb>
which is or are likely to be born or Bastard or<lb></lb>
Bastards and to become chargeable to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo155">parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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and this Deponent<lb></lb>
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saith that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n270-2">John Barnes</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35827_occ24">Hair Dresser</rs>
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who is<lb></lb>
now Foreman to the Widow Whitehouse of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo156">Church<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo157">Birmingham</rs>
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<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
is the only real true father<lb></lb>
of the said Child or Children wherewith she is<lb></lb>
pregnant as aforesaid he & no one else having <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
had carnal knowledge of this Deponents Body<lb></lb>
sometime in or about the Month of March last &<lb></lb>
at <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
other times since at some or one of which time<lb></lb>
he did beget the said Child or Children wherewith<lb></lb>
she is pregnant as aforesaid on the body of this<lb></lb>
Deponent and that he and no one else is the<lb></lb>
only real & true father thereof</p>
<p n="271">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35827_date24">15th. day of November 1792</rs>
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before me} R Butler</p>
<p n="272"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n272-1">Elizabeth Rainer</rs>
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