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hath made full Satisfaction, for the Expence
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and lying in of
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the said Parish of
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, was charged on the Oath of the said
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with being the Father thereof, and hath given B
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Indemnify the said Parish, from any future Expence Witness
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our Hands this 25th. October 1769.
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