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<p n="691"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35828_geo712">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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<p n="692"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35828_geo713">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n692-1">Catherine Hitchcock</rs>
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aged about<lb></lb>
22 years upon her Oath saith that she never was<lb></lb>
married Rented House or paid Taxes That she<lb></lb>
lived as a hired yearly Servant with Mr. Cox<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35828_geo714">Boswell Court</rs>
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in the<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35828_geo715"> Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Clement Danes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35828_geo716">County of Middlesex</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
Twelve Months and upwards at the yearly<lb></lb>
wages of Eight Guineas that she hath quitted<lb></lb>
said Service about Five Months since which<lb></lb>
time she has not done any Act to gain a<lb></lb>
subsequent Settlement And further this<lb></lb>
Examinant upon her voluntary Oath saith<lb></lb>
that she is pregnant with Child or Children<lb></lb>
which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or<lb></lb>
Bastards and to become Chargeable to the<lb></lb>
said Parish That one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n692-3">John Dowham</rs>
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who is Clerk<lb></lb>
to the said Mr. Cox is the father thereof he<lb></lb>
having had carnal knowledge of this<lb></lb>
Examinants Body sometime in or about the<lb></lb>
Month of August last and at several times<lb></lb>
since at one of which times he did beget the said<lb></lb>
Bastard Child or Children of which she is so pregnant<lb></lb>
and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n692-4">John Dowham</rs>
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is the only real and<lb></lb>
true father thereof.</p>
<p n="693">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35828_date184">7th. day of April 1789</rs>
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} R Butler</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35828_n694-1">Catherine Hitchcock</rs>
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