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Aged about Twenty three Years Upon<lb></lb>
Oath says she never was Married nor ever Rented Ten Pounds a<lb></lb>
Year, paid Taxes was an Apprentice or lived a hired Yearly Servant for One<lb></lb>
Year, says her Father <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35821_n642-2">John Evans</rs>
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now lives in a house of<lb></lb>
of his own in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35821_geo626">Rixham in Denbighshire</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
North Wales in which he carries on the Business of a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35821_occ285">Carpenter</rs>
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, And further upon her Voluntary Oath says<lb></lb>
that on the Twentieth of November 1767, she was delivered<lb></lb>
of a Male Bastard Child in the House of Mr. Holmes<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35821_geo627">Great Shire Lane</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35821_geo628">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35821_geo629">Westminster</rs>
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which hath been Baptized<lb></lb>
by the Name of Robert, says that <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35821_n642-3">Robert Edwards</rs>
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an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35821_occ287">Attorney</rs>
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at No. 3. Ground Floor in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35821_geo630">Lincolns Inn</rs>
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Now<lb></lb>
Square did beget the said Male Bastard Child on her<lb></lb>
Body he having had carnal knowledge of her Body<lb></lb>
some time in the Month of February 1767, and at several<lb></lb>
times afterwards, at one of which times he got her with<lb></lb>
Child of the said Male Bastard Child of which she was<lb></lb>
delivered as aforesaid And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35821_n642-4">Robert Edwards</rs>
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Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35821_date173">19th. day of<lb></lb>
December 1767</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> W Kelynge</hi>
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