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<p n="57"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss</note>
The Voluntary Examination of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n57-2">Mercy Holloway</rs>
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of the <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo73"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo74">parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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in the said County <lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ42">Singlewoman</rs>
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taken on oath before me <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n57-1">John <lb></lb>
Sherwood</rs>
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- <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ43">Esquire</rs>
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one of his <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ44">Majesties Justices of the <lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this - <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10315_date23">Eleventh day<lb></lb>
of March 1775</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="58">Who Saith That She is now With Child And that the Said Child<lb></lb>
is likely to be born a Bastard and to be Chargeable to the said <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo75">Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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and that <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n58-1">Thomas <lb></lb>
Boddy</rs>
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now or late of <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo76"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo77">half Moon Alley</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo78">Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Botolph without Bishopsgate</rs>
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London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ45">Butcher</rs>
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is the Father <lb></lb>
of the Said Child and this Examinant Further Saith that Sometime<lb></lb>
ago She was hired & lived as a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ46">hired Servant</rs>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10315_occ46" type="occupation" value="hired Servant"></interp>
by the year with <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n58-2">Joseph Smith</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo79"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10315_geo80">Upper East Smithfield</rs>
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in the said parish of St<lb></lb>
Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ47">Butcher</rs>
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at Certain Yearly Wages & <lb></lb>
Continued in Such Service for the Space of one Year & Four Months<lb></lb>
& by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there That She this<lb></lb>
Examinant has not Since lived as a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10315_occ48">hired Servant</rs>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10315_occ48" type="occupation" value="hired Servant"></interp>
for a year or <lb></lb>
was ever Married nor hath done any Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement</p>
<p n="59"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Taken & Signed the day &<lb></lb>
Year above written before<lb></lb>
me<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n59-1">Jno Sherwood</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="60">The Mark of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10315_n60-1">Mercy<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Holloway</rs>
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