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Rufe</rs>
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<p n="145"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15075_date36">8th Febry 1764</rs>
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On Examination Taken & Sworn on that day before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n145-1">Wm Bridgon</rs>
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London That<lb></lb>
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Knowledge of her Body and did beget her with Child of the<lb></lb>
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date under the hand & Seal of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n146-2">Wm Bridgen</rs>
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. and an<lb></lb>
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Apprehended and taken and did onFebry Just enter into<lb></lb>
a Recognizance before<del>G</del>
Wright Esqr. one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15075_occ79">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for this of Middx with two Sureties to Appeal at the next Sessions of the peace<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15075_geo99">City of London</rs>
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to Answer the Complaint of the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15075_geo100">St Andrew Holborn</rs>
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London relative to the said Bastard Child or<lb></lb>
Children of which the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n146-7">Margt. Prosser</rs>
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<p n="147"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15075_date37">17th Febry 1764</rs>
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Child in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15075_geo101">Workhouse</rs>
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Andrew Holborn</rs>
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<del>is</del>
will not<lb></lb>
for some time be of Sufficient Bodily Strength and Ability to<lb></lb>
Attend the Sessions as an Evidence in Support of the Compl of the sd Ch. wardens<lb></lb>
and Overseers</p>
<p n="148">Please therefore to Move that the sd Recognizance of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n148-1">Jno. Rufe</rs>
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may<lb></lb>
be Enlarged or Respited<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
until the next Qur. Sessions<lb></lb>
of the peace for the sd <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15075_geo103">City of London</rs>
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