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Westmr.
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to wit
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Mary Burn
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Aged about Thirty Years on her
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Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid
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Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly
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Servant
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with one
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Shipman at
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the Wheat at Sheaf
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in Holy well Street
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in
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the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
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in the County of
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Middlesex
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for five Years at the Yearly Wages of Five
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Pounds Ten Shillings hath quitted the same upwards
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Five Years ago and hath not since she quitted the same
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ever Rented House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly
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Servant for One Year And Further upon her Voluntary
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Oath says she is pregnant with Child or Children w
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is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and
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become Chargable to the said Parish of
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Saint Clement
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she being Poor and unable to maintain the
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when born Says that one
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Patrick Ward
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a
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Milkman
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the Seven Stars
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at Bromley
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in the County of Middlex
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is the Father thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge
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of her Body in the said
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Patrick Ward
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s House same
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time in the Month of June or July but the particular
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Day she does not now remember and at one other. after time
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at one of which time he got her with Child of the Child
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or Children of which she is now Pregnant and that the
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Patrick Ward
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and no other Person did beget the
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same and that he is the real and true Father thereof
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Sworn this
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5th. day of
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Febry 1773
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before me
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W Kelyngs
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her
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Mary
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Burn
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Mark
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Witness
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E: Fields
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