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Mary Dyson
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aged about 22 years upon
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her Oath saith that she never was married Rented
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House Tenement of the yearly value of £10 or paid
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Taxes for any place whatever That she lived as an
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hired yearly Servant with Mrs. Mortimer in Norfolk
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Street in
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in the
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in the
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at the yearly Wages
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of £3 for about Two years that she quitted her said
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Place only about Three weeks ago and since that
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hath not to her knowledge acquired any subsequent
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Settlement And further this Examinant on her
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Voluntary Oath saith that she is now pregnant with
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Child or Children which is or are likely to be born a
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and that
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Stephen Walton
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who now is a
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Board Builder
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and
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lives at Green land Dock
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Rotherhithe
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is the real and
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true father of such Child or Children wherewith she
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is so pregnant as aforesaid the said
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Stephen Walton
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having
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in or about the Months of May or June last at which times
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he was Servant to Mr. Hodges who lodged at this Deponents
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Mistress Mrs. Mortimer and at several other times had
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carnal knowledge of this Examinants Body at some
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or one of which times he the said
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Stephen Walton
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did
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actually begot on this Deponents Body the said Child or
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Children wherewith she is so pregnant as aforesaid and
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that he the said
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Stephen Walton
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and no one else is the real
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and true father of such Child or Children
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Sworn this
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9th. day of
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Decr. 1788
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. before} R Butler
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her
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Mary
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Dyson
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Mark
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