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Westmr.
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Aged about Twenty Eight Years
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on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
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or paid Taxes Says she lived a
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with one
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Thos. Lewis
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Cooks Court
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Carey Street
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for Several
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Years last Past at the Yearly Wages of Six Pounds
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Ten shillings hath quitted her said Service about four
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Months ago and hath not since she quitted the same
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done Any Act whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement
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Saturday the
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Eighteenth day of June East
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she was delivered of a Female
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Bastard Child in the
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belonging to the Parish
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of Saint Clement Danes
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which has since been baptized by
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the Name of
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Elizabeth
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and is become Chargable to the same
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she being Poor and unable to maintain the said Child Says
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that one
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Edward Boden
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late a
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Coachman
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with Mr. Lewis
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( & who lately lived with one Mr. Lee a Bauker in
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Lombard
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Street
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but where the said
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Edward Boden
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now lives she does
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not know) is the Father thereof the having had Carnal
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knowledge of her Body on or about the
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fifteenth of Septr.
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last
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at her Masters Lodgings in
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Cooks Court
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aforesaid and at
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sevl.
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different times afterwards at one of which times he
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got her with Child of the Female Bastard Child of which she
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was so delivered as aforesaid and that the said
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Edward Boden
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and no other Person did beget the same and that he is the real
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and true Father thereof
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Sworn this
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19th. day of
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July 1774
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before
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William Addington
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Elizabeth Lissiman
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