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<p n="77"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx,</note>
<lb></lb>
The Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15050_n77-1">Ann Minchen</rs>
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otherwise<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15050_n77-2">Watts</rs>
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Taken before me one of his Majesties<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace for the County of Middx.</p>
<p n="78">Who being Examin'd doth Voluntarily Confess and Say That<lb></lb>
on the first day of January last was four Years She was lawfully<lb></lb>
married to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15050_n78-1">John Minchen</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15050_occ20">Leather Breeches Maker</rs>
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with<lb></lb>
whom She liv'd and Cohabited for the Space of three Years and<lb></lb>
upwards and afterwards to wit on the 20th. day of November<lb></lb>
last She was married in the like lawfull manner to John<lb></lb>
Watts a Leather Breeches Maker with whom She has<lb></lb>
Since cohabited Excepting two Nights that She went over to<lb></lb>
the Marshalsea Prison in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15050_geo24">Southwark</rs>
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and lay along with<lb></lb>
the Said John Minchen who was then a Prisoner there<lb></lb>
And the Said Ann Minchen otherwise Watts doth further<lb></lb>
Confess and Say that the Said Two Marriages as aforesaid<lb></lb>
were Severally perform'd by two Clergymen or Gentlemen<lb></lb>
in Clergymens Habits & Rofes at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15050_geo25">Fleet Ditch</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
at Two different houses each known by the Name or Sign<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15050_geo26">hand and pen</rs>
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and at the Times aforesaid</p>
<p n="79">Taken before Me the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15050_date11">28th. April 1739</rs>
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<p n="80">J Poulson</p>
<p n="81">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
Ann Minchen<lb></lb>
otherwise Watts</p>
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