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SRO Q/SR/168/1

Bastardy examination 1687

 

 

The examination of Jane Sealey of Stogumber who saith that she was never married but a singlewoman and is now quick with child of a bastard child begotten of her body by one Bernard Hawkins of ye parish of Stogumber aforesaid miller who had ye carnal knowledge of her body onse upon a bed in her fathers house about a fortnight after Whitsuntide last past when the said Bernard Hawkins begat her child with ye bastard child she now goeth with and that noe other person had every ye carnal knowledge of her body and further saith not
 
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