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<p n="47"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
Westmr.}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n47-88">Elizth. Martin</rs>
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Aged about Twenty Seven Years on<lb></lb>
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House<lb></lb>
or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ15">Servant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with one Mr. Burnett an Upholsterer in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo40"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo41"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo42">the Strand</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for Three Years and Eight Months at the Yearly Wages of<lb></lb>
Seven Pounds hath quitted her said Service about Three Weeks<lb></lb>
ago and hath not since she quitted the same ever done any Act<lb></lb>
whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement And further upon<lb></lb>
her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant with Child or<lb></lb>
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards<lb></lb>
and to become Chargable to the said Parish she being Poor and<lb></lb>
unable to maintain the same when born Says that one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n47-1">Edward Lewis</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ16">Porter</rs>
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to her said late Master had Carnal<lb></lb>
knowledge of her Body in her said late Masters House the<lb></lb>
latter End of November last but the particular Day she<lb></lb>
does not now remember and at sevl. different times afterwards<lb></lb>
at one of which times he got her with Child of the Child or<lb></lb>
Children of which she is now Pregnant and that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n47-2">Edward Lewis</rs>
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and no other person did beget the same and<lb></lb>
that he is the real and true Father thereof.</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date13">18th. day<lb></lb>
of June 1776</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> M Addington</hi>
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<p n="49">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n49-66">Elizth.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Martin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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