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The Appeal of
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adjudication made the Eleventh day of October
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1733 On the behalf of the Churchwardens and
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of the Parish of Saint
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James Duke Place Under the Hands of the Right
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Honrble
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William Bitters
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of the said City in Relation to a
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Male Bastard Child born in the said Parish on the
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twenty Second Duy of August last past on the
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For that the said Jane by her Examinantion taken before
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the said two Justices possitively Swears that the
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Appellant is the reall and true Father of the said Male
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Bastard Child and did beget the Same on the body of the
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Examinant And that no other persons had Carnal knowledge
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of her Body
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the Appellant Since her husbands Death
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Whereas it plainly Appears that the said Jane
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Myers hath been Oftern seen and found in bed withone
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and Master Lyon Since the Death of her
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late Husband and before and within the Space of twelve Months
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last past and that this appellant was out of England the first day
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of November last which is near no Months before the
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Delivery of the said Jane Myers Therefore the
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Appellant humbly insists that he is not the Putative
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Tather thereof And for these Reasons appeals against
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the Same
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