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<p n="776"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx.</note>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n776-1">Mary Smith</rs>
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aged about 20 Years upon Oath<lb></lb>
says she was never Married and that she lived a<lb></lb>
hired Yearly Servant with Mr. Fox a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35820_occ282">Brazier</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo813">St. Peter in the City of Lincoln</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
One Year & upwards at the Yearly Wages of fifty Shillings<lb></lb>
hath quitted same about Six Years and hath not<lb></lb>
since Rented house paid Taxes or lived a yearly hired<lb></lb>
Servant for One Year And further upon her<lb></lb>
Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant with<lb></lb>
Child or Children which is likely to be born a<lb></lb>
Bastard or Bastards and to become chargeable to<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo814">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo815">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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where she now lodges she being poor<lb></lb>
and Unable to Maintain the same when born Says<lb></lb>
that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n776-2">John Welch</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35820_occ283">Journeyman Perukemaker</rs>
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(who is gone<lb></lb>
away & this Examinant cannot tell where he is)<lb></lb>
had carnal knowledge of her Body in the Month<lb></lb>
of December 1764 and at several other times<lb></lb>
since at one of which times he got her with Child of<lb></lb>
the Child or Children with which she is now pregnant<lb></lb>
and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n776-3">John Welch</rs>
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and no other Person<lb></lb>
did beget the same</p>
<p n="777">Sworn <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35820_date176">7th. Augst. 1765</rs>
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<p n="778">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n778-1">Mary Smith</rs>
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