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one of his Majesty's
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in & for the said County this thirty first Day of
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March. 1760
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Who saith that she is about thirty two years of Age &
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who travell'd about the Country, as a Hawken & Pedlar
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& sometimes, beg'd for her living, with whom she continued
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died, which was about six
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year age at Sitting bourn in Rent, from which time
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she wandered about, chiefly in Kent, selling sometimes
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a few Pins & Laces but mostly maintiaining herself
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by begging, till about a year & half age she became
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acquainted, at Setting bourn aforesaid, with one
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Bottons, with whom she cohabited about a year, chiefly
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in Kent, hill Christmas last, when they came together
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to London to try Rushes, where he was pressed & carried
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aboard a Tender, that she was them with Child by the
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said Williams, & being so parted from him, she went
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from London & wandered through Bucking hamshire
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Birkshire & Willshire & back again towards London
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& during all that time supported herself entirely by
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begging, that on Wednesday the 12th. of thes Instent March
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about four o' Clock in the Afternoon she came to Turnka
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Mistress, but she refused her & sent for the Beadle who
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came & sent for a Midwife, who examined her in the
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Yard of the said
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in Labour, but she insisting she was & that she is
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not able to go further the Beadle ordered two of the
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