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Mary Smith
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aged about 20 Years upon Oath
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says she was never Married and that she lived a
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hired Yearly Servant with Mr. Fox a
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Brazier
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St. Peter in the City of Lincoln
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for
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One Year & upwards at the Yearly Wages of fifty Shillings
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hath quitted same about Six Years and hath not
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since Rented house paid Taxes or lived a yearly hired
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Servant for One Year And further upon her
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Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant with
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Child or Children which is likely to be born a
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Bastard or Bastards and to become chargeable to
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the Parish of
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St. Clement Danes
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in the said
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where she now lodges she being poor
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and Unable to Maintain the same when born Says
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that one
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John Welch
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a
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Journeyman Perukemaker
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(who is gone
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away & this Examinant cannot tell where he is)
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had carnal knowledge of her Body in the Month
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of December 1764 and at several other times
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since at one of which times he got her with Child of
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the Child or Children with which she is now pregnant
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and that the said
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John Welch
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and no other Person
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did beget the same
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Sworn
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7th. Augst. 1765
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The Mark of
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Mary Smith
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