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she being Poor and unable to maintain the same
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And further Says that oneMenzie Fishmonger
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is the Father thereof
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he having had Carnal knowledge of his Body in a House
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Three sevl. times and one
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some
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particular Days she does not now remember above belief
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times he got her with Child of the
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man Bastard Child of which
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she was so delivered and that the said Menzie and no
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other Person did beget the same and that he is the real and
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bone Father thereof
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R. Butler
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