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Aged about Thirty Eight Years
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on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
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one Mr. Jones who Kept
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for
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quitted her said Service upwards of Ten Years ago and
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or Children Which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
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Bastards and to become Chargeable to the said Parish she being
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Poor and unable to maintain the same when born says
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Fishing Tackle maker
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who
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now Uses
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the Sign of the Red Lyon and Still
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in Drury Lane
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is the Father Thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge of
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her Body for Seventeen Months Past at one of which
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times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
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she is now pregnant And that the said
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and no other Person did beget the same and that
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he is the real and true Father thereof
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Sworn this
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11th. day
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Sampn Wright
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