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Westmr.
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aged about Twenty Seven
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Years on her Oath Says she never was married Rented
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for One Year and upwards at the
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Yearly Wages of Six Pounds hath quitted her said Service
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upwards of Six Months and hath not since Rented House
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or done any other act whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement
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delivered of a Male Bastard Child in the Workhouse
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belonging to this Parish and further says that one
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Isaac
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to the said Mr. Ward had Carnal
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Knowledge of her Body in his the said Mr. Wards house sometime in the Month of October
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last but the Particular Day she does not now remember
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and at several different times afterwards at one of which
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times he got her with Child of the Male Bastard Child of
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which she was so delivered as aforesaid and that the said
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that he is the real and true Father thereof
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