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&<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n660-1">Prudence Meredith</rs>
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aged about 24 years Lodging<lb></lb>
in Mr. Poole's Tenements in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo1053">the Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo1054">St.<lb></lb>
Clement Danes</rs>
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and County of Middx upon Oath saith she<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ765">never was Married</rs>
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or bound an Apprentice, That she lived a<lb></lb>
hired yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ766">Servant</rs>
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with Mr. Hawkes a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ767">Brazier</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo1055">Corner of Surry Street</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo1056">the Strand</rs>
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in the said Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo1057">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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for one year & upwards at the yearly<lb></lb>
Wages of £4 quitted the same about Four years and hath<lb></lb>
not since rented any House or been a hired Servant for one<lb></lb>
year And further upon her Voluntary Oath says<lb></lb>
she is now <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ768">pregnant</rs>
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with Child or Children which is likely to<lb></lb>
be Born a Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargeable<lb></lb>
be the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo1058">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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she being Poor and<lb></lb>
unable to maintain the same when Born and that one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n660-2">Robert Rosser</rs>
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(who lives <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ769">Clerk</rs>
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with Mr. Fleming an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ770">attorney</rs>
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at No. 9 in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35819_geo1059">Castle yard Holborn</rs>
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) did <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35819_occ771">beget such<lb></lb>
Child</rs>
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or Children he having had Carnal Knowledge of<lb></lb>
her Body in the Month of September 1761 and at several<lb></lb>
other times since at one of which times he did beget<lb></lb>
her with Child of the Child or Children with which she is now Pregnant</p>
<p n="661">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35819_date182">27th day of<lb></lb>
April 1762</rs>
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Before} <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n661">Fran: Bedwell</rs>
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<p n="662">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35819_n662-1">Prud: Meredith</rs>
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