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Aged about Twenty Eight Years on her Oath Says
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she never was Married nor ever Rented House or paid Taxes Says
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she lived a Hired Yearly Servant with the late
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for Nine Months at the Yearly Wages of Seven Pounds
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and then her said Master died and this Examinant further Saith
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on her said Master's dying took her said
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late Master's House who continued her as a Yearly hired Servant
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at and under the same Wages and has lived with the said Mr: Green
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for Six Months or thereabouts And further upon her Voluntary
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to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes she being Poor and
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unable to maintain the same when born Says that one
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Philip
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who (as this Examinant has heard and believes) now lives at Mr: Kings in Fore Street in the City of
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and no other person did beget the same and that he is the real and
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Sworn this
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12th: day of July 1770
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W Kelyngs
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