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<p n="1048"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx. & Westmr.</note>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35814_n1048-3">Elizth: Cort</rs>
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aged abt. 19 Years upon Oath says<lb></lb>
she never was Married and that she lived a hired<lb></lb>
Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35814_occ430">Servant</rs>
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with Mrs. Lister Bookseller in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35814_geo889">the<lb></lb>
Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35814_geo890">St. Clemt. Danes</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35814_geo891">Middx</rs>
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for 15 Months at the Yearly Wages of<lb></lb>
£4 and hath Quitted said Service abt. 3 Months<lb></lb>
And further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is<lb></lb>
pregnant with Child or Children which is likely<lb></lb>
to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become<lb></lb>
chargeable to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35814_geo892">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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she being Poor & unable to Maintain She same<lb></lb>
when Born Says that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35814_n1048-1">Wm. Carden</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35814_occ431">Carpenters</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
lodges at the Magpye in Butcher Row in the said<lb></lb>
Parish had carnal knowledge of her Body at the<lb></lb>
house of the said Mrs. Lister sometime in the<lb></lb>
beginning of August 1759 and at sevl. other times<lb></lb>
since at one of which times he got her with Child<lb></lb>
of the Child or Children with which She is now<lb></lb>
pregnant and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35814_n1048-2">Wm. Carden</rs>
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& no others<lb></lb>
Person is the true & Real father thereof</p>
<p n="1049">Sworn <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35814_date298">April 18th. 1760</rs>
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before me} <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35814_n1049-1">Fran: Bedwell</rs>
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<p n="1050">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35814_n1050-1">Eliz: Cort</rs>
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<p n="1051">Upon Mr. Burnthwaites<lb></lb>
Complaint<lb></lb>
J: P:</p>
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