Middx
to wit
Elizabeth German< no role >
Aged about 25 Years on her
Oath Saith she never was Married rented house paid Taxes
or ever served any Apprenticeship whatever says she
lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mrs
Sarah Helder< no role >
Widow
in
Grainge Court
in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes
in the Liberty of Westminster
upwards of Three
Years at the Yearly Wages of Six Pounds
a Yearand
has Quitted her said service upwards of Eighteen Months
and hath not since she quitted the same ever rented House
paid Taxes or lived a hired yearly Servant for one Year 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 Chargeable to the said
Parish of Saint
Parish of Saint Clement Danes
she being poor and unable to
mantain the same when born and that one
James Deane< no role >
a Porter
to one
Mr Bradley a Mercer near
Saint Margts Hill
in the Borough
of Southwark
in the County of Surrey
had Carnal knowledge
of her Body sometime in the Month of March last but
the Particular Day she does not now remember in his said
Mastershouse and at several different times afterwards at
one of which times he got her with Child of the Child or
Children of which she is now pregnant as aforesaid and
the said
James Deane< no role >
and no other person did beget the
same and that he is the real and true father thereof
Sworn this 26th day
of Decr 1774
before} [..]
Eliz German< no role >