Middx
&
Westmr.}
Jane Besford< no role >
Aged about Nineteen Years on her Oath
Says she never was married Rented House paid Taxes or
lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year Says her Father
Francis Besford< no role >
Rented and lived in a house in
Stanhope
Street
Clare Markett
in the Parish of St. Clement Danes
for
sevl. Years at the Yearly Rent of Sixteen Pounds & paid Taxes
due for the same hath quitted sd House upwards of Twenty
Two Years ago & hath not since gained any or subseqt Settlemt.
And further upon 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 Chargable to the said
Parish she being poor and unable to maintain the same when
born Says that one
George Denejean< no role >
at a Midshipman
at Mrs. Denejeys in
George Street
York Buildings
had Carnal knowledge of her Body at a
House and as she believes at
the Bagnio
in St. Martins Lane
the latter end of December last but the Particular Day she
does not now remember at which time he got her with Child
of the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant and
that the said
George Denejean< no role >
and no other person did
beget the same and that he is the real and true Father
thereof
Sworn this Twenty Seventh
day of July 1774
before
William Addington< no role >
her
Jane [mark] Besford< no role >
Mark