St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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27th October 1772 - 17th May 1776

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Image 283 of 3733rd August 1775


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to wit Sarah Miller< no role > Aged about Twenty Six Years on her
Oath Says she never was Married, Rented House or paid Taxes, Says
She lived a Hired Yearly Servant with one Mr. Samuel Edwards< no role > a
Wine Merchant , in Beaufort Buildings , in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes , in the County of Middlesex, for fourteen Months or thereabouts as
the Yearly Wages of Six pounds; hath Quitted her said Service about
Three Weeks ago, and hath never since she Quitted the same Rented
House, paid Taxes lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year or any
otherwise gained any 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 been
Chargeable to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes , (she being
Poor and unable to maintain the same when borns) Says that one
Simon Warren< no role > who now lives a Servant with one Mr. Laddet No 3
in Portman Square , is the father thereof, he having had Carnal
knowledge of her body in the said Mr. Edwards House in Beaufort
Buildings aforesaid, sometime in the beginning of January last [..]
the particular day she does not now remember, 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, and that
the said Simon Warren< no role > and no other person did beget the same, and
that he is the real and true father thereof.

Sworn this 3d day
of Augt 1775 before}




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