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to wit Elizth. Shields< no role > Aged about Thirty Eight Years
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with
one Mr. Jones who Kept the Taylors Arms now Known by the
Name of the Swan in Holywell Street in the Parish of
Saint Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westminster for
Fifteen Months at the Yearly Wages of Three Pounds has
quitted her said Service upwards of Ten Years ago and
hath not since she quitted the same ever Rented House paid
Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year And further
upon her Voluntary Oath Says she is Pregnant with Child
or Children Which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
Bastards and to become Chargeable to the said Parish she being
Poor and unable to maintain the same when born says
that one Bartholomew Lowe< no role > a Fishing Tackle maker who
now Uses the Sign of the Red Lyon and Still in Drury Lane
is the Father Thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge of
her Body for Seventeen Months Past at one of which
times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
she is now pregnant And that the said Bartholomew
Lowe< no role > and no other Person did beget the same and that
he is the real and true Father thereof

her
Elizth [mark] [..] Shilds< no role >
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