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<p n="862"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
Westmr.</note>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35821_n862-1">Jane Higgins</rs>
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Aged about Twenty seven<lb></lb>
Years, Upon her Voluntary Oath says she never was<lb></lb>
Married and that on the Seventh of October 1766,<lb></lb>
she was delivered of a Female Bastard Child in the<lb></lb>
house of Mr. Trotter in Stanhope Street in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35821_geo893">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
within the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35821_geo894">County of Middlesex</rs>
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which hath been baptized<lb></lb>
by the Name of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35821_n862-4">Ann </rs>
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; says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35821_n862-2">John Cummings</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35821_occ420">Journeyman Carpenter</rs>
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is the reputed Father of the<lb></lb>
said Female Bastard Child, he having had carnal<lb></lb>
knowledge of her Body sometime in the Month of<lb></lb>
February 1766, and at several times afterwards, at one<lb></lb>
of which times he got her with Child of the said Female<lb></lb>
Bastard of which she was delivered as aforesaid, and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35821_n862-3">John Cummings</rs>
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and no other Person is<lb></lb>
the true and real Father thereof</p>
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Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35821_date243">6th day of<lb></lb>
July 1768</rs>
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, before<hi rend="braceResult"> W Kelynge</hi>
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<p n="864">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35821_n864-1">Jane Higgins</rs>
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