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Westmr.
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to wit
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aged about Twenty Years on
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her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
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Says her Father
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Henry Prior
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Mill Yard
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for Eight Years or thereabouts
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at the Yearly Rent of Twenty Pounds and upwards where
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her said Father died and her Mother afterwards kept she
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same upwards of half a Year hath quitted the same
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upwards of Three Years and hath not since quitted the
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same ever Rented Ten Pounds a Year paid Taxes or
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otherwise gained any subsequent Settlement and further
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upon her Voluntary Oath Says that on the
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Second day
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of August Instant
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she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child
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which hath since been Baptized
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Peter
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Peter Taylor
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a
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Coal heaver
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the Bull
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in Milford Lane
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had Carnal knowledge of her
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Body in the Month of January last but the Particular
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day she does not now remember and at several different times
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afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of the
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Male Bastard Child of which she was so delivered as
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aforesaid and that the said
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and no other Person
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did beget the same and that he is the real and true Father
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thereof
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Sworn this
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7th. day
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August 1773
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before
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R. Butler
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