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<p n="295"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n295-1">Mary Ranger</rs>
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Aged about twenty two Years<lb></lb>
on her Oath says she never was married Rented house<lb></lb>
paid Taxes or ever served any Apprenticeship Says she<lb></lb>
lived as a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ159">Servant</rs>
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with one Mr. Bathgate<lb></lb>
a Blacksmith in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo429"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo430"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo431">Milford Lane</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Clement Danes </rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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upwards of<lb></lb>
two Years at the Yearly Wages of three Pounds or upwards<lb></lb>
hath quitted her said Service upwards of<del>three</del>
four Years<lb></lb>
ago since which time she hath never gained any<lb></lb>
other subsequent Settlement And further upon her<lb></lb>
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 chargeable to the said Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo432">St. Clement Danes </rs>
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she being poor and unable to<lb></lb>
maintain the same when born Says that one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n295-2">Samuel Morris</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ160">Journeyman Taylor</rs>
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who uses <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo433"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo434">the<lb></lb>
sign of the Coach & horses</rs>
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on Newington Green</rs>
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had<lb></lb>
carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the<lb></lb>
Month of November last but the particular Day she<lb></lb>
does not now remember & at sevl. times afterwards at<lb></lb>
one of which times he got her with Child of the Child<lb></lb>
or Children of which she is now pregnant and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n295-67">Saml. Morris</rs>
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and no other person<lb></lb>
did beget the same & that he is the real & true Father<lb></lb>
thereof.</p>
<p n="296"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date103">21st. Day<lb></lb>
of May 1777</rs>
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<hi rend="braceResult"> R Butler</hi>
</hi>
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<p n="297">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n297-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Ranger</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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