Westmr.
to wit
Mary Osman< no role >
Aged about Twenty Eight Years
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year
says she was bound an Apprentice
by the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Wells
in the County
of Summerset
to one
Robert Thacker< no role >
a Butcher
and
served her said Master about Five Years at Wells
aforesd.
and her said Master afterwards came up to Town and
resided in
Houghton Street
in the Parish of Saint
Clement Danes
and served the remainer part of her
said Apprenticeship with her said Master in the Parish
last mentioned since which she never did any Act
whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement And Further
upon her Voluntary Oath Says that on the 14th. day of
December 1769
to the best of her remembrance she was
delivered of a Female Bastard Child
in the House of one
Mr. Lyon in
Luckner Lane
in the parish of Saint Giles in
the Fields
in the County of Middx
which as since been
Baptized
Jane Ann< no role >
And further says that in the Month
of October 1771 but the Particular Day she does not now
remember she was Delivered of a Male Bastard Child
in
Charter house Lane
at the House of one Haggeton
in that
part of the Parish of Saint Sepulchre
which lyes in the County of
Middlesex
which has since been baptized by the name
of
William Henry< no role >
And further says she is pregnant
with Child or Children which is or are likely to be born a
Bastard or Bastards and to become Chargable to the parish
of Saint Clement Danes
she being Poor and unable
to maintain the same when born say that one
Richard
Bellasyse< no role >
Buckle maker
who is now gone from her
had Carnal Knowledge or her body some time in the
Month of August last and at several different times
afterwards at one or which times he got her with Child
of the Child or Children of which she is now Pregnant as
afsd. and that the said
Richard Bellasyse< no role >
and no other Person
did beget the same and that he his real and true Father