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<p n="218"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
Westminster</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n218-1">Ann Simpson</rs>
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Aged upwards of Eighteen Years<lb></lb>
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House<lb></lb>
or paid Taxes Says she was bound out an <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ112">Apprentice</rs>
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by the<lb></lb>
Govrs. & Guardians of the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo309">Foundling Hospital</rs>
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to one Mr.<lb></lb>
Boulton a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ113">Hair Dresser</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo310">the Strand</rs>
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untill she shod. Attain<lb></lb>
her Age of 21 Years or Day of Marriage and lived with her sd.<lb></lb>
Master upwards of half a Year and was afterwards Assigned<lb></lb>
Over to one Mr. Mackfarlane a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ114">Bookbinder</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo311"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo312">Ship Yard</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the parish of St. Clement Danes</rs>
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and has lived with him<lb></lb>
under such Assignment for about Seven Years and hath never<lb></lb>
gained any other Subsequent Settlement And further upon<lb></lb>
her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant with Child or<lb></lb>
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or<lb></lb>
Bastards and to become Chargable to the said Parish she<lb></lb>
being poor and unable to maintain the same when born<lb></lb>
Says that One <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n218-2">William Lewis</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ115">Hair Dresser</rs>
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who lodges<lb></lb>
in her said Masters House is the Father thereof he having<lb></lb>
had Carnal knowledge of her Body sometime in June or<lb></lb>
July last in her said Masters House but the Particular Month or days she does not<lb></lb>
now remember and at sevl. different times afterwards at<lb></lb>
one of which times he got her with Child of the Child or<lb></lb>
Children of which she is now pregnant as aforesaid and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n218-3">William Lewis</rs>
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is the real and true Father<lb></lb>
thereof.</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date77">18th. day<lb></lb>
of February 1777</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> M Addington</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="220">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n220-1">Ann<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Simpson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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