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St Clement Danes
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September 24 1792
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and
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Child's birth
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Reputed father
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Elizabeth Cocker
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aged 21
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years and upwards Upon Oath saith that She never
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was Married that she lived as an hired yearly with
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Mr. Bevan No. 6 James's Buildings in Rosemary
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Row
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in the
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parish of St James
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Clerkenwell
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in the
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County of Middlesex
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for one year (wanting one day) at the Annual
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Wages of £5:0:0 and Received the whole years
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Wages for such her Service and hath never obtained any
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Settlement in her own right otherwise than by such
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Service with Mr Bevan in James's Buildings as
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aforesaid and this Deponent further saith that
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on the 5th day of December 1791 at the House of
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Mrs. Knight No. 5 Houghton Street in the
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in the said Liberty of
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Westminster
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County of Middlesex
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she this
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Deponent was delivered of a Female Bastard Child
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Named Rachael
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aged 9
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and that the said Child is become chargeable to the
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to harsh that one
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John Croft
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who now Works at
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Kentish town
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in the said Cov
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as a Labourer in the Highways is the only real
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and truefather of such Child of which She was
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so delivered as aforesaid he and no one else
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having had Carnal knowledge of this Deponent
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Body about four years ago and at several time
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since at some or one which times he did beget
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the said Child thereon and that he & no one else
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the real true father thereof
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Sworn the
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24th day of
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September 1792
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before me}
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Wm Kitchiner
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Elizth
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Elizth
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Cocker
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Mark
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Witness
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Benj: Henry
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