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<p n="301"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n301-99">Margt. Davidson</rs>
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Aged about twenty five Years on her Oath<lb></lb>
says she never was married Rented house<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
paid Taxes or<lb></lb>
ever served any Apprenticeship Says she lived a hired Yearly<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ162">Servant</rs>
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with one Mr. Speediman in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo438"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo439"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo440">the Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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upwards of two<lb></lb>
Years at the Yearly Wages of £8 hath quitted her said<lb></lb>
Service upwards of One Month since which time she hath<lb></lb>
never gained any other subsequent Settlement And further<lb></lb>
upon her Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant with Child or<lb></lb>
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards<lb></lb>
and to become chargeable to the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo441">Saint Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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(she being poor and unable to maintain the same<lb></lb>
when born) Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n301-1">Charles Douglas</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ163">Carpenter</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo442"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo443">Wych Street</rs>
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in the said Parish of St. Clement Danes</rs>
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is the<lb></lb>
Father thereof he having had carnal Knowledge of her Body<lb></lb>
sometime in the Month of October but the particular Day<lb></lb>
she does not now remember and at sevl. different times<lb></lb>
afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of<lb></lb>
the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant and that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n301-2">Charles Douglas</rs>
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and no other person did beget the<lb></lb>
same and that he is the real and true Father thereof</p>
<p n="302">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date105">27th. Day<lb></lb>
of May 1777</rs>
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before me}<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="303"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n303-66">Margreat Davidson</rs>
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