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Aged about Twenty Seven Years on
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her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
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or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly
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with one Mr. Burnett an Upholsterer in
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for Three Years and Eight Months at the Yearly Wages of
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Seven Pounds hath quitted her said Service about Three Weeks
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whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement And further upon
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her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant with Child or
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Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards
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and to become Chargable to the said Parish she being Poor and
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unable to maintain the same when born Says that one
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Edward Lewis
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to her said late Master had Carnal
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knowledge of her Body in her said late Masters House the
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latter End of November last but the particular Day she
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does not now remember and at sevl. different times afterwards
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at one of which times he got her with Child of the Child or
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Children of which she is now Pregnant and that the said
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and no other person did beget the same and
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that he is the real and true Father thereof.
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