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Mary Dax
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Aged about 30 years on her
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Oath says she never was Married Rented House
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or paid Taxes says she Lived as a Hired yearly
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Servant
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with one Mrs. Flynn of
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Norfolk Street
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in
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the parish of St. Clement Danes
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for Eighteen Months
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at the yearly Wages of Six pounds hath quitted
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said Service upwards of Eighteen Months, Since
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which time she has gained no other settlement than
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as aforesaid and further on her Voluntary oath
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says she is pregnant with Child or Children which
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is or are likely to be Born a Bastard or Bastards and
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is become Chargeable to the said Parish of
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St. Clemt.
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she being Poor & unable to maintain the same
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when Ban and further saith that and
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James
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Madan
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who formerly kept the
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Black Bull
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the Corner
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of West Lane
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Rotherhithe
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is the Father of such Child
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or Children he havg. had Carnal Knowledge of this
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Examinants Body sometime in the Month of June
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last and as several different times afterwards at some
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or one of such times he got her with Child of the Child or
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Children of which she is now pregnant and that the sd.
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James Madan & no other person did beget the same & that
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he is the Real & true father thereof Says she believes the father is gone to live at
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, that his Br
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lives the Corner of D
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and Bear Yard in
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Sworn this
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16th. Day of April 1785
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before me
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R Butler
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The Mark
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Mary Dax
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