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<p n="77"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo74">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n77-1">Patrick Byrne</rs>
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at Mr<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n77-2">George Catlet</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ39">Baker</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo75">Chatham</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo76">County<lb></lb>
of Kent</rs>
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Baker taken upon Oath this Sixteenth<lb></lb>
day of October 1753.</p>
<p n="78">This Information upon his Oath saith That about the<lb></lb>
Beginning of the Month of April last One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n78-1">Mary Larkin</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ40">Siglewoman</rs>
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was brought<lb></lb>
to Bed of a Female Bastard Child in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo77">Parish of Saint Margaret</rs>
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in the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo78">Rochester</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo79">County of Kent</rs>
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whereupon the Officers<lb></lb>
of the said Parish took this Informant up by a Warrant from a Justice<lb></lb>
of the Peace and he this Informant was there upon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Comitted to and Confined<lb></lb>
in his Majesty's Prison at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo80">Rochester</rs>
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aforesaid for the Space of Three<lb></lb>
Days But upon this<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Informants entring into a Bond<lb></lb>
with Sufficient Securitys and despositing the Sum of Five Pounds<lb></lb>
to Answer any Charges the parish might sustain by the Child<lb></lb>
continuing in the parish he this Informant was discharged and<lb></lb>
same few Days after he this Informant caused the said Female Bastard<lb></lb>
Child to be brought up to London in Order to endeavour to have it taken<lb></lb>
into the Founding Hospital And this Informant further saith<lb></lb>
That upon the said Childs coming to London he was recomended to and<lb></lb>
left the said Child with One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n78-2">Mary Thornton</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo81">Wild Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo82">Saint Giles in the Fields</rs>
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Middx <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ41">Midwife</rs>
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and thereupon<lb></lb>
he this Informant deposited in her Hands One Guinea to Answer<lb></lb>
the Charge of Maintaining the said Child untill<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Application could be made to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo83">Foundling Hospital</rs>
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or in Case<lb></lb>
the said Child was not admitted into the said Hospital the said<lb></lb>
Guinea was to Answer all Expences of Maintenance till this<lb></lb>
Informant came to London again And this Informant upon his<lb></lb>
Oath<del>saith</del>
further saith that Some time about the Begining of<lb></lb>
June he this Informant came to Sown again when he was Informed<lb></lb>
by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n78-3">Mary Thornton</rs>
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in General Terors that the said Child<lb></lb>
was dead but could not or would not tell<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
him what time in<lb></lb>
Particular the said Child dyed or where it was Buried And this<lb></lb>
Informant further saith That he hath several Times applied to<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n78-4">Mary Thornton</rs>
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for a Satisfactory Account of the said<lb></lb>
Childs Death Burial but can get none therefore this<lb></lb>
Informant hath just Reason to Suspect the said Female</p>
<p n="79"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n79-1">Patrick Byrne</rs>
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