Middlesex ss.

Hannah Hallam< no role > Singlewoman maketh Oath
that her late Father William Hallam< no role > decd. about
Twenty One Years ago Rented a House of Twelve
Pounds a year or thereabouts in Sea Coal Lane
in the Parish of St. Sepulchre in the City of
London , known or described by No 20. & lived
there about Three Years and was charged to and
paid the Poors Rate for the same to a Mr. Nash
of the Old Bailey, & died legally settled in the said
Parish that she this Deponent has never been an
Apprentice or lived as a hired Servant by the
Year in any Parish or Place for the space of One
Year together or Rented any House or Lodging
of the Yearly Rent or Value of Ten Pounds or
paid any Poors Rate or Kings Tax or done any Act
to her Knowledge or Belief to gain a Settlement
in her own right & that she never was Married
And further saith that on or about the Second Day
of August last in Lowders Lying in Hospital
Montague Close in the Parish of St. Saviour Southwark
in the County of Surry she was delivered of a
Female Child since half Baptized at St. Saviours
Church by the name of Catherine < no role > that John
Dietman< no role > of Lower Eastsmithfield in the Parish of
St. Botolph without Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex Taylor is the Father of the said Child
& that the sd. Child is Illegetimate & a Bastard by
reason that she never was Married to the sd. John Dietman
And further saith that being Poor & not able to provide for herself
& Child she has been obliged to apply to the Overseers of the Poor
of the sd. Parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate for Relief & has been
relieved by them accordingly

her
Hannah [mark] Hallam< no role >
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