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Elizabeth Tunks
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aged about 29 years upon
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her Oath saith that she never was married Rented
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House or Tenement or paid any Taxes that she never
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lived as an hired yearly Servant in one place for one
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year that she is the Daughter of
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George Tunks
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that she
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was born in the
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that
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her Father was a Carpenter and lived in
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Colebrooke
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in
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Shropshire
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in the Parish of
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Maidley
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And
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further this Examinant upon her Voluntary Oath
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saith that she is pregnant with Child or Children
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which is or are likely to be born Bastard or
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Bastards and to become Chargeable to the said
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Parish of Saint Clement Danes
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That one
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James
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Lennan
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a
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Grocer
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at No: 43 Leadenhale Street
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is the father thereof he having had Carnal
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knowledge of this Examinants Body sometime
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in or about the Month of September last and at
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several times since at one of which times he
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did beget the said Child on Children of which
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she is so pregnant and that the said
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James Lennan
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is the only Real and true father thereof.
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Sworn this
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13th-
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day of June 1789
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.} R Butler
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her
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Elizth.
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Tunks
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Mark
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