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<p n="103"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50481_geo42">Middlesex</rs>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50481_n103-1">Elizabeth Cooke</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50481_occ34">single<lb></lb>
Woman</rs>
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taken on Oath before in <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50481_n103-2">Samuel Wegg</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50481_occ35">Esqr</rs>
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one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50481_occ36">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in & for the said County this thirty first Day of<lb></lb>
March. 1760</p>
<p n="104">Who saith that she is about thirty two years of Age &<lb></lb>
was born in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50481_geo43">Billericay</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50481_geo44">County of<lb></lb>
Essex</rs>
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, that her Mother died when she was very young, &<lb></lb>
she was then taken & brought up by one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50481_n104-1">Mary Baldock</rs>
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who travell'd about the Country, as a Hawken & Pedlar<lb></lb>
& sometimes, beg'd for her living, with whom she continued<lb></lb>
till the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50481_n104-2">Mary Baldock</rs>
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died, which was about six<lb></lb>
year age at Sitting bourn in Rent, from which time<lb></lb>
she wandered about, chiefly in Kent, selling sometimes<lb></lb>
a few Pins & Laces but mostly maintiaining herself<lb></lb>
by begging, till about a year & half age she became<lb></lb>
acquainted, at Setting bourn aforesaid, with one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50481_n104-3">John<lb></lb>
Williams</rs>
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, who went about the County mending Chair<lb></lb>
Bottons, with whom she cohabited about a year, chiefly<lb></lb>
in Kent, hill Christmas last, when they came together<lb></lb>
to London to try Rushes, where he was pressed & carried<lb></lb>
aboard a Tender, that she was them with Child by the<lb></lb>
said Williams, & being so parted from him, she went<lb></lb>
from London & wandered through Bucking hamshire<lb></lb>
Birkshire & Willshire & back again towards London<lb></lb>
& during all that time supported herself entirely by<lb></lb>
begging, that on Wednesday the 12th. of thes Instent March<lb></lb>
about four o' Clock in the Afternoon she came to Turnka<obscured></obscured>
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green or the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50481_geo45">Parish of Chiswick</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50481_geo46">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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, where she was taken very ill in labour &<lb></lb>
having no Money or any other Necessaries, enquired<lb></lb>
a Parish Officer, & was directed to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50481_geo47">Workhouse</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
said Parish, where she desired Admittance of the<lb></lb>
Mistress, but she refused her & sent for the Beadle who<lb></lb>
came & sent for a Midwife, who examined her in the<lb></lb>
Yard of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50481_geo48">Workhouse</rs>
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, & declared she was<obscured></obscured>
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in Labour, but she insisting she was & that she is<lb></lb>
not able to go further the Beadle ordered two of the</p>
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