St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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16th April 1785 - 12th January 1787

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Image 96 of 38617th August 1785


Sarah Downes< no role > This name instance is in set 898. lives at No. 9
R Bell Court Grays Tom Lane }

Saint Clement Danes

Middlesex
and
Westminster}


taken and
Security
given

to wit Sarah Downes< no role > aged about 27 years upon
her Oath saith she never was Married Rented
House or Paid Taxes Says she lived as a hired
yearly Servant with one Mr. Anderson who kept the five
Bells in Holywell Street in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes in the County of Middlesex for 14 Months and upwd.
at the yearly Wages of Seven Pounds hath quitted said Service
about 3 years ago since which time she has done no Act
Matter or thing whereby she may have gained a
Settlement elsewhere And further on her Voluntary Oath
says she is Pregnant with Child or Children which is or
are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become
Chargeable to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes
she being poor and unable to maintain the same where
born And further saith that one Richard Long< no role > who
lives as a Servant with one Mr. Hill an Altorney at
No.15 Coney Court Grays Inn is the Father of the saidsuchChild
or Children he having had Carnal knowledge of the
Examinants Body sometime in the Month of
March last and at sevl difft. times afterwds. at one of
which times he got her with Child of the Child or Children
of which she is now Pregnant and that the said Richard
Long
< no role > and no other Person did be yet the same and that he
is the real and true father thereof


Sworn this 17th
day of Augt. 1785
Wm Kitchiner< no role >

Sarah Downs< no role >




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