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The Appeal of Martus Da Costa< no role > Against an
adjudication made the Eleventh day of October
1733 On the behalf of the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
James Duke Place Under the Hands of the Right
Honrble John Barker< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor of
the City of London and Sir William Bitters< no role > Kinght
and Alderman of the said City in Relation to a
Male Bastard Child born in the said Parish on the
twenty Second Duy of August last past on the
Body of Jane Myers< no role > Widow

First

For that the said Jane by her Examinantion taken before
the said two Justices possitively Swears that the
Appellant is the reall and true Father of the said Male
Bastard Child and did beget the Same on the body of the
Examinant And that no other persons had Carnal knowledge
of her Bodybutthe Appellant Since her husbands Death

Whereas it plainly Appears that the said Jane
Myers hath been Oftern seen and found in bed withone
Moses Levy< no role > and Master Lyon Since the Death of her
late Husband and before and within the Space of twelve Months
last past and that this appellant was out of England the first day
of November last which is near no Months before the
Delivery of the said Jane Myers Therefore the
Appellant humbly insists that he is not the Putative
Tather thereof And for these Reasons appeals against
the Same