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<p n="488"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n488-25">Elizth. Shields</rs>
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Aged about Thirty Eight Years <lb></lb>
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House<lb></lb>
or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ279">Servant</rs>
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with<lb></lb>
one Mr. Jones who Kept <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo708"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo709"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo710"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo711"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo712">the Taylors Arms</rs>
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now Known by the <lb></lb>
Name of the Swan</rs>
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in Holywell Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <lb></lb>
Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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for <lb></lb>
Fifteen Months at the Yearly Wages of Three Pounds has<lb></lb>
quitted her said Service upwards of Ten Years ago and <lb></lb>
hath not since she quitted the same ever Rented House paid<lb></lb>
Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year And further <lb></lb>
upon her Voluntary Oath Says she is Pregnant with Child<lb></lb>
or Children Which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or<lb></lb>
Bastards and to become Chargeable to the said Parish she being<lb></lb>
Poor and unable to maintain the same when born says<lb></lb>
that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n488-2">Bartholomew Lowe</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ280">Fishing Tackle maker</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
now Uses <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo713"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo714">the Sign of the Red Lyon and Still</rs>
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in Drury Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
is the Father Thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge of <lb></lb>
her Body for Seventeen Months Past at one of which <lb></lb>
times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which <lb></lb>
she is now pregnant And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n488-64">Bartholomew<lb></lb>
Lowe</rs>
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and no other Person did beget the same and that<lb></lb>
he is the real and true Father thereof</p>
<p n="489"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date162">11th. day<lb></lb>
of Febry 1774</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n489-52">Sampn Wright</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
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<p n="490">her <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n490-64">Elizth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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Shilds</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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