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Taken before me one of his Majesties
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Justices of the Peace for the County of Middx.
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Who being Examin'd doth Voluntarily Confess and Say That
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on the first day of January last was four Years She was lawfully
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Leather Breeches Maker
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with
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whom She liv'd and Cohabited for the Space of three Years and
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upwards and afterwards to wit on the 20th. day of November
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last She was married in the like lawfull manner to John
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Watts a Leather Breeches Maker with whom She has
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Since cohabited Excepting two Nights that She went over to
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the Marshalsea Prison in
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and lay along with
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the Said John Minchen who was then a Prisoner there
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And the Said Ann Minchen otherwise Watts doth further
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Confess and Say that the Said Two Marriages as aforesaid
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were Severally perform'd by two Clergymen or Gentlemen
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in Clergymens Habits & Rofes at
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at Two different houses each known by the Name or Sign
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of the
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hand and pen
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and at the Times aforesaid
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Taken before Me the
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28th. April 1739
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J Poulson
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The Mark of
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Ann Minchen
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