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Aged about Thirty Years on
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of Saint Mary White Chapel
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Year ago and hath not since she quitted the same ever
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she was delivered of a Male Bastard
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Child in
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the Poor House
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belonging to the Parish of Saint
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which has since been baptized by the
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Porter
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to one Mr. Simmonds an Apothecary in
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is the Father there of the having had
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Carnal Knowledge of her Body some time in the Month
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of March 1779 but the particular Day she does not now
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remember and at Sevl. times afterwards at one of which
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times he got her with Child of the Male Bastard Child
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of which she was so delivered as aforesaid and that the
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and no other Person did beget
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the same and that he is his real and True father thereof
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Sworn this
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20th. day
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