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Bastardy before Birth
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23d February 1793
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Settlement
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Pregnancy
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Reputed father
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Sarah Woodhill
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aged
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tweny one years or thereabouts Upon Oath saith
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that she never was Married that she lived as
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an hired yearly Servant with Mr Jackson
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Bookbinder in Herberts passage Fountain Court
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Strand in the parish of
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in the
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for
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about
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a year
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and upwards at the Annual Wages of £6 or
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thereabouts-that she quitted that Service about
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four years ago-and hath never since lived as an
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hired yearly Servant for a twelve month together
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kept any House or Apartment of £10 a year paid
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parish Taxes or done any other Act Matter
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or thing whatsoever whereby she might obtain any
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subsequent legal settlement to the best of this
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Examinants knowledge information or belief
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And this Examinant
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Upon her Voluntary Oath
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further saith that she is now pregnant
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with a Child or Children which is or are likely to be
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born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
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chargeable to the said
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parish of St Clement Danes
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house
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a private Soldier in his Majesty's Second Regiment
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of Foot Guards in the First Battalion and Duke
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did beget the said Child
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or Children on the Body of her this Deponents he
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Examinant's Body sometime in or about the
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