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Sarah Ling
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aged about 20 years upon
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for about two years at
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the yearly Wages of £6 that she hath quitted said
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has done no Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement
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she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child at the
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in the Parish of
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which
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William
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That one
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William Gallant
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is the father
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thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of this
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Examinants Body sometime in the Month of Decr.
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last and at several times since at one of which times
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he did beget the said Bastard Child of which she
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Sworn this
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16th.
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Sarah Ling
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