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<p n="331">Bastardy before Birth</p>
<p n="332"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo228">St Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
23d February 1793</p>
<p n="333"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo229">Westminster</rs>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Settlement</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Pregnancy</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Reputed father</note>
}(to wit) <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n333-1">Sarah Woodhill</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35827_occ31">Singlewoman</rs>
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aged<lb></lb>
tweny one years or thereabouts Upon Oath saith<lb></lb>
that she never was Married that she lived as<lb></lb>
an hired yearly Servant with Mr Jackson<lb></lb>
Bookbinder in Herberts passage Fountain Court<lb></lb>
Strand in the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo230">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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in the <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo231">County of Middlesex</rs>
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for <del>about</del>
a year<lb></lb>
and upwards at the Annual Wages of £6 or<lb></lb>
thereabouts-that she quitted that Service about<lb></lb>
four years ago-and hath never since lived as an<lb></lb>
hired yearly Servant for a twelve month together<lb></lb>
kept any House or Apartment of £10 a year paid<lb></lb>
parish Taxes or done any other Act Matter<lb></lb>
or thing whatsoever whereby she might obtain any<lb></lb>
subsequent legal settlement to the best of this<lb></lb>
Examinants knowledge information or belief<lb></lb>
And this Examinant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Upon her Voluntary Oath<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
further saith that she is now pregnant<lb></lb>
with a Child or Children which is or are likely to be<lb></lb>
born a Bastard or Bastards and to become<lb></lb>
chargeable to the said <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo232">parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
when born and saith that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n333-4">William Wood</rs>
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house<lb></lb>
a private Soldier in his Majesty's Second Regiment<lb></lb>
of Foot Guards in the First Battalion and Duke<lb></lb>
Company <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
did beget the said Child<lb></lb>
or Children on the Body of her this Deponents he<lb></lb>
having first had carnal knowledge of this <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Examinant's Body sometime in or about the</p>
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