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<p n="275">Before Birth.</p>
<p n="276"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo158">St Clement Danes</rs>
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Decr. 4th 1792</p>
<p n="277"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo159">Middlesex</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Settlement</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Pregnancy</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">Reputed Father</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n277-1">Mary Harvey</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35827_occ25">singlewoman</rs>
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aged 29 years<lb></lb>
and upwards Upon Oath saith that she<lb></lb>
never was Married that she lived as an hired<lb></lb>
yearly servant with Mr <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n277-2">Henry Birks</rs>
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in Gilbert<lb></lb>
Street <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo161">Clare Market</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo162">parish of St Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo163">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and City and<lb></lb>
Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo164">Westminster</rs>
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about Seven years at the annual Wages<lb></lb>
of about £6 for the last <del>two</del>
year of the said<lb></lb>
Term that she quitted that service <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
on or about<lb></lb>
the third day of May last and hath not since rented<lb></lb>
any House <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
or Apartment of £10 a year on or done<lb></lb>
any other Act Matter or thing whatsoever whereby<lb></lb>
to obtain any subsequent legal Settlement and<lb></lb>
this Examinant upon her voluntary Oath further<lb></lb>
saith that she is pregnant with a Child or Children<lb></lb>
which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or<lb></lb>
Bastards and to become chargeable to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo165">parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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and that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35827_n277-3">John<lb></lb>
Burton</rs>
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of Stanhope Street in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35827_geo166">parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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within the said Liberty<lb></lb>
and County did beget the said Child or Children<lb></lb>
wherewith she is pregnant as aforesaid on this<lb></lb>
Deponent's Body he having had carnal knowledge<lb></lb>
of this Deponents Body sometime <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in or about the<lb></lb>
Month of September 1791 <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
at several times<lb></lb>
since and particularly on or about the 5th. day of<lb></lb>
June now last past <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and that he and no or<lb></lb>
else is the only real <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and true father</p>
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