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<p n="479"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n479-1">Mary Pickering</rs>
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Aged about Twenty five<lb></lb>
Years on her Oath Says she never was married Rented<lb></lb>
House or Paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant <lb></lb>
for one Year Says she was bound an <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ270">Apprentice</rs>
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to <lb></lb>
and Served one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n479-2">Daniel Adcock</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ271">Ribbon Weaver</rs>
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in <lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo691"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo692"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo693">Holywell Row</rs>
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in the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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for Three Years or upwards <lb></lb>
the first part of her said Apprenticeship but through<lb></lb>
the ill Usage of her Master her late Mother took her<lb></lb>
away says she never was Assigned Over to any other <lb></lb>
Person or ever gained any Subsequent Settlement and <lb></lb>
Further says that on the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date157">28th day of Decr. past</rs>
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she was<lb></lb>
delivered of Female Bastard Child in the House of Mr. Miller<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo694">Little Wych Street</rs>
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which has since been baptized by<lb></lb>
the Name of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n479-41">Ann</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35807_n479-41" type="surname" value="PICKERING"></interp>
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Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n479-3">George Lee</rs>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35807_n479-3" type="given" value="GEORGE"></interp>
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is <lb></lb>
the Father then of he having had carnal Knowledge <lb></lb>
of her Body sometime the Month of April 1773 and<lb></lb>
at servl. different times afterwards at one of Which <lb></lb>
times he got her with Child of the Female Bastard<lb></lb>
of which she was so delivered as afsd. and that the said <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n479-4">Geo. Lee</rs>
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did beget the same and that he is the real<lb></lb>
and true Father</p>
<p n="480"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date158">7th. day<lb></lb>
of Febry 1774</rs>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35807_date158" type="date" value="17740207"></interp>
before<hi rend="braceResult"> W Kelyngs R Butler</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="481">her <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n481-1">Mary <figure rend="mark"></figure>
Pickering</rs>
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<lb></lb>
mark</p>
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