Middlesex
&
Westminster}
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 for several Years
in
Stanhope Street
in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes
at the Yearly Rent of Sixteen pounds and paid
Parish Taxes due for the same as her Mother has often
informed her and which Information she verily believes
to be true And further upon her Voluntary Oath says
that on Saturday the 6th day of Augt. last
she was delived of
a Male Bastard Child and is now in the
Work house
belongg.
to the said Parish of St. Clement Danes
which has since been baptized by the name of
George< no role >
and is now
[..]
[..] chargable to the said Parish she being Poor
and unable to maintain the same Says that one
George
Donadieu< no role >
a Midshipman
at Mrs. Donadieu's in
George
Street
York Buildings
is the Father thereof he having
had Carnal knowledge of her Body at a House (and as
she believes) at
the Bagnio
in St. Martins Lane
the latter
End of Decr. last but the particular Day she does not
now remember at which time he got her with Child of
the Male Bastard Child of which she was so delivered
As aforesaid And that the said
George Donadieu< no role >
and no
Other person did beget the same and that she is the real
and true Father thereof
Sworn this 2d. day of
Septr. 1774
before
William Addington< no role >
her
Jane [mark] Besford< no role >
Mark