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1695
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March 28.
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The Informacon of
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Mary
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taken upon Oath
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this
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28th day of March 1695
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As followeth!
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That about Lady day was two years one
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Samuel
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Kingstone
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a person who lived incontinently
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with
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Mary Read
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came to her house and
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took lodgings therein where ye said Kingstone
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and Read lived together as man and wife
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for ye space of half a year, and ye departed
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and about Lady day last was twelve moneth
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the said Kingstone and Read came again
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to this informant house and there lodged
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together again as man and wife and so
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continued till the 18th
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December last
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or thereabout in which time this Informant very me
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observeing the said
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Mary Read
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did verily
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beleive she was with Child and yt when
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she left ye said lodging she apprehended
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She might be near ye time of her delvidy.
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in some little time after about three weeks
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or a moneth ago a dead new born Child
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was found in a Coffin at the Sign of the
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fifteen Crowns in Lambeth, as this Informt:
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was told by the Church Wardens of ye said
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Parish who came to Search of in her Sd
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house;(
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this informant was told yt after ye said
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Mary Read
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last left
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She to
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this is all of this Informant which
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hereof
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) And further this Informant Saith
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not.
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The mark of
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Mary
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Button
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Jurat coram me.
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Tho Lane
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Majr.
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