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<p n="311"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n311-1">Frances Spencer</rs>
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Aged upwards of Twenty<lb></lb>
five Years on her Oath Says she never was married<lb></lb>
Rented House or paid Taxes Says she has lived with<lb></lb>
her present Master Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n311-99">John Dringal</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo459"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo460"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo461"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo462">the Feathers<lb></lb>
Tavern</rs>
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in the Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of St. Clement<lb></lb>
Danes </rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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upwards of One Year<lb></lb>
and a Quarter at the Yearly Wages of Seven pounds<lb></lb>
And further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is<lb></lb>
pregnant with Child or Children which is or are likely<lb></lb>
to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargable<lb></lb>
to the said Parish she being Poor and unable to maintain<lb></lb>
the same when born Says that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n311-2">Jeremiah Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ171">Porter</rs>
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to Mr. Allanson Silk Mercer in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo463">St. Clements<lb></lb>
Church Yard</rs>
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is the Father thereof he having had<lb></lb>
Carnal knowledge of her Body sometime in January<lb></lb>
last but the Particular day she does not now<lb></lb>
remember at at sevl. different 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 that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n311-3">Jeremiah Taylor</rs>
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and no other person did<lb></lb>
beget the same and that he is the real & true Father<lb></lb>
thereof.</p>
<p n="312"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date109">21st. day<lb></lb>
of June 1777</rs>
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before<lb></lb>
me<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n312-66">Abrm Baley</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
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<p n="313">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n313-1">Frances<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Spencer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark.</p>
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