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<p n="183"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35828_geo182">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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<p n="184"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
Westmr.}</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n184-1">Ann Cowden</rs>
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aged about 19 years upon her<lb></lb>
Oath saith that she never was married Rented House<lb></lb>
paid Taxes lived as a hired yearly Servant for one year<lb></lb>
or ever bound an Apprentice that her late father <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n184-2">Ja<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Cowden</rs>
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in his life time Rented and lived in a House<lb></lb>
Water Street in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35828_geo183">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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for 7 years<lb></lb>
the yearly Rent of £9..15..0 & paid all Taxes due for<lb></lb>
same that since his decease her Mother has kept<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
said House till this day and that this Ext. has been<lb></lb>
with her Father & Mother ever since she was born that<lb></lb>
she has done no Act in her own right to gain a Settlement<lb></lb>
And further this Ext. upon her Oath saith that<lb></lb>
the 29th. day of April 1784 last past she was delivered of<lb></lb>
Male Bastard Child in her Mother House in the Street<lb></lb>
Parish afsd. which hath since been Christened by the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n184-90">Thos. Henry Ward</rs>
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and that on the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35828_date54">17th. day of Novr.</rs>
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17<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
last past she was delivered of another Male Bastard<lb></lb>
Child at her mother House afsd. in the Parish afsd. which has<lb></lb>
since been Christened by the name of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n184-4">Henry Ward</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n184-5">Thos. Henry Ward</rs>
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a Journeyman Taylor who la<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
at this Exts. Mothers House and work for a Mr. Triad<lb></lb>
Taylor in Arrundel Street is the father of the sd. 2 Children he ha<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
had Carnal knowledge of the Exts. Body for these<lb></lb>
years last past at sevl. times and begotten the said<lb></lb>
Children thereon And that the said Thos. <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n184-6">Henry Ward</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the only real and true father of the said Two Child</p>
<p n="185">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35828_date55">15th.<lb></lb>
day of Febry. 1787</rs>
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<lb></lb>
before me} R Butler</p>
<p n="186"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n186-1">Ann Cowden</rs>
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</p>
<p n="187">Man taken he paid £10<lb></lb>
Release Exted</p>
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