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<p n="149"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss</note>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10308_n149-1">Jane Gater</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10308_geo152">Parish of St<lb></lb>
Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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in said County <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10308_occ96">single woman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken on oath before Me one of his Majesties Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace for the County of Middx residing in or<lb></lb>
Near the said Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10308_date46">seventeenth day of May 1760</rs>
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</p>
<p n="150">This Examinant on her oath saith that about eight Months ago one <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10308_n150-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10308_n150-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
the Younger of <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10308_geo153"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10308_geo154"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10308_geo155">WatlingStreet</rs>
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near Cheapside</rs>
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London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10308_occ97">Upholsterer</rs>
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did<lb></lb>
Prevail with this Examinant to Suffer him to lye with her at the house<lb></lb>
of his father <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10308_n150-3">Thomas Smith</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10308_geo156"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10308_geo157"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10308_geo158">Moor Fields</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Botolph without Bishopsgate</rs>
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London</rs>
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Broker And the said <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10308_n150-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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the Younger had Carnal knowledge of this Examinants Body<lb></lb>
several times whereby she Conceived with Child or Children of which<lb></lb>
she now goeth with and is Pregnant And this Examinant saith that<lb></lb>
the said Child or Children of Which she now goeth with and is<lb></lb>
Pregnant as aforesaid is or are likely to be born a bastard or bastards<lb></lb>
and to be Chargeable to the said <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10308_geo159">Parish of St. Botolph without<lb></lb>
Aldgate</rs>
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she being Poor and not able to Provide for the same And that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10308_n150-4">Thomas Smith</rs>
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the Younger is the true and only father of<lb></lb>
the said Child or Children so likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards<lb></lb>
as aforesaid And lastly saith that this Examination is Voluntary<lb></lb>
And that she hath not been forced or Compelled to be examined by<lb></lb>
any Person or Persons whatsoever</p>
<p n="151"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10308_date47">17th. day of May<lb></lb>
1760</rs>
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before Me<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10308_n151-1">Chris: Scott</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="152">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10308_n152-1">Jane<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Gater</rs>
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