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Danes
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Oath saith she is pregnant with Child or Children which is
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likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
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Laurence Holbrook
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to the said
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Mr Brown did beget the said Child or Children on her
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Laurence Holbrook
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carnal knowledge of this Examinant in the latter
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times since at one of which times he got her with
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Child of the sd. bastard Child or Children with which she
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is now pregnant and that the said
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Laurence Holbrook
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and no other person is the true and real father thereof
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March 12th.
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1750
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Tho Lane
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Eliz
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North
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