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<p n="68"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
Westmr.</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n68-1">Jane Hughes</rs>
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Aged about Twenty Six years on<lb></lb>
her Oath says she never was married Rented House or pd. Taxes<lb></lb>
Says she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35810_occ9">Servant</rs>
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with one Mr. Woodham in<lb></lb>
Musical Instrument maker in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo29">Exeter Court</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo30">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35810_geo31">Middlesex</rs>
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upwards of Three<lb></lb>
Years at the Yearly Wages of Six Pounds hath quitted her said<lb></lb>
Service about five Months ago since which time she hath<lb></lb>
gained no other Settlement And further on her Voluntary<lb></lb>
Oath says she is Pregnant with Child or Children which is or<lb></lb>
are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become<lb></lb>
Chargeable to the said Parish she being Poor & unable to maintain<lb></lb>
the same And further says that one Serjeant Bean who<lb></lb>
lately Used Mr. Dykesher late Master at a Wine Vault facing<lb></lb>
Burleigh Street in the Strand but of what Regiment she does<lb></lb>
not know is the Father thereof he having had Carnal<lb></lb>
knowledge of her Body at her said late Masters House some<lb></lb>
time in the Month of October last but the Particular Day she<lb></lb>
does not now Remember and at sevl. Difft. times afterwards<lb></lb>
at one of Which times he got her with Child of the Child or Childn,<lb></lb>
of Which she is now Pregnant and that the said Mr. Serjeant<lb></lb>
Bean & no other Person did beget the same & that he is the real &<lb></lb>
true father thereof.</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35810_date10">11th.<lb></lb>
day of April 1783</rs>
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<p n="70">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35810_n70-1">Jane<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Hughes</rs>
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