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Rebecca Walters
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aged upwards of Twenty Eight Years
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upon Oath says she never was married and that she lived
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Essex Street
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in the Parish of
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in the County of Middx
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for two Years and upwards at the Yearly Wages of Six
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Pounds and hath quitted said Service about five Weeks
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she is pregnant with Child or Children which is or
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are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to
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she being poor and unable to maintain the same when
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William Wain
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to the
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said Mr. Bold did beget the said Child or Children
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on her Body; he having had carnal knowledge of her
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body sometime in the Month of May 1766, and at
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several other times since at one of which times he
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got her with Child of the Child or Children with
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William
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Sworn the
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19th, day
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Paul Vaillant
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Rebekah Walters
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