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<p n="668"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n668-96">Abigail Somervil</rs>
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Aged about Thirty One Years<lb></lb>
on her Oath says she never was Married rented house paid Taxes<lb></lb>
ever served any Apprenticeship whatever says she lived a hired<lb></lb>
Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ389">servant</rs>
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with one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n668-1">Christopher Clift</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ390">Grocer</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1046"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1047"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1048">the Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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in the County of Middlex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
upwards of One Year and three Quarters at the Yearly Wages<lb></lb>
Six Pounds and has Quitted her said Said Service upwards<lb></lb>
five Years Ago and has not since she Quitted the same ever<lb></lb>
rented House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant<lb></lb>
for one Year and further upon her Solemn Oath says she was<lb></lb>
delivered of a Male Bastard Child at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1049"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1050"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1051"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1052">t<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1053">he Queens Hospital</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
Stower street</rs>
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Totenham Court Road</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Pancras</rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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, And is now become<lb></lb>
Chargeable to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1054">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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And<lb></lb>
that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n668-2">Thomas Morgan</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ391">Writer</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1055"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1056"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1057">No 11</rs>
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in Cursitor<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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Chancery Lane</rs>
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is the Father thereof he having had<lb></lb>
Carnal knowledge of her body sometime in the Month of<lb></lb>
August in the Year 1772 to the best of he remembrance and<lb></lb>
at several different times afterwards at one of which times<lb></lb>
he got her with Child of the said Male Bastard Child of which<lb></lb>
she was so delivered as aforesaid, And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n668-57">Thomas<lb></lb>
Morgan</rs>
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and no other person did beget the same and that he is the<lb></lb>
real and true father thereof</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date240">28th.<lb></lb>
day of Decr 1774</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n669-1">Tho Lane</rs>
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<p n="670">The Mark<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n670-24">Abigail Somervil</rs>
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