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Elizabeth Pettit
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aged about
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Servant with Mr. Burchells in
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Parish of Saint Clement Danes
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for Fourteen Months
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at the
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yearly Wages of Eight Pounds hath quitted said
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Richard Norton
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a Master
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Baker
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of this Examinants Body sometime in the Month
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of June last past and at several times since at
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one of which times he did beget the said Bastard
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24th.
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Wm Kitchiner
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