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<p n="953"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n953-1">Ann Preston</rs>
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Aged about forty years on her<lb></lb>
Oath Says she is the <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ558">Wife</rs>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35807_occ558" type="occupation" value="Wife"></interp>
of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n953-2">Christopher Preston</rs>
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<interp inst="WCCDEP35807_n953-2" type="surname" value="PRESTON"></interp>
<interp inst="WCCDEP35807_n953-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
who<lb></lb>
has been gone from her upwards of Seventeen years<lb></lb>
but whether he is living or dead she cannot set forth<lb></lb>
having never seen or heard from him since the time he<lb></lb>
left her Says her said Husband before he deserted her He<lb></lb>
rented and lived in a House in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1539"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1540">Ship Yard</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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for sevl. years at the yearly Rent<lb></lb>
of Nineteen pounds as she has been informed and verily<lb></lb>
believes hath quitted the said House upwards of Seventeen<lb></lb>
years ago since which time he hath never gained any<lb></lb>
other Subsequent Settlement to her Knowledge or beleif<lb></lb>
And further upon her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant<lb></lb>
with Child or Children which is or are likely to be born<lb></lb>
a Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargable to the<lb></lb>
said Parish she being poor and unable to maintain the<lb></lb>
same when born And further Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n953-3">John Arnold</rs>
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<lb></lb>
as she believes his name to be and was late a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ559">Waiter</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1541"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1542">the Horse and Groom</rs>
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in Portugal Street</rs>
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is the Father<lb></lb>
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body in<lb></lb>
the Workhouse of the said Parish some time the latter<lb></lb>
End of March or the begining of April last past and at sevl.<lb></lb>
different times afterwards at one which times he got her<lb></lb>
with Child of the Child or Children of which she is now<lb></lb>
pregnant & that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n953-4">John Arnold</rs>
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& no other person did<lb></lb>
beget the same & that he is the real & true Father thereof</p>
<p n="954"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date348">14th. day<lb></lb>
Decr. 1775</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> R. Butler</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="955"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n955-1">Ann Preston</rs>
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