Middlesex
&
Westmr.}

Esther Robertson< no role > Aged upwards of Twenty
Year on her Oath Says she never was married Rented
House paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one
Year Says her Father Rented and lived in a House in
Stanhope Street in the Parish of St. Clement Danes
at the Yearly Rent of Twenty four pounds hath quitted
the said House upwards of fifteen Years ago and hath
not since he quitted the same ever Rented House paid
Taxes or done any or Act whereby to gain a Subsequent
Settlement 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 Thos.
Mason< no role > a Journeyman Taylor Foreman to Mr. Bass a
Taylor in Pickering Court St. James's Street and who now
uses the Kings Arms in Houghton Street is the Father
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body
on Wednesday the 27th. of July last at the one Bill Inn in
the Strand and at sevl. Different times afterwards at different
Places at one of which times he got her with Child of the
Child or Children of which he is now pregnant and that
the said Thos. Mason< no role > and no other person did beget the same
and that he is the real and true Father thereof.

Sworn this 7th. day
of Novr. 1774 before} [..]

Esther Robertson< no role >