Middesex
&
Westmr.}

Mary Bennett< no role > Aged about 23 Years on her Oath
says she never was Married, Rented a House or Served
any Apprenticeship, says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mr Walker a Butcher in Clements Lane , in the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westmr .
for Eighteen Months, at the Yearly Wages of six pounds,
has quitted that same Service upwards of two years ago,
since which time she has never lived a hired yearly Servt,
a twelvemonth at any one time, and further upon her
Voluntary Oath says, she is pregnant with Child or Children
which is on are likely to be born a bastard or bastards, and
to become chargeable to the said Parish, (she being poor; and
unable to Maintain the same (when born) and further says
That one Thomas Manhood< no role > a Journeyman Weaver , who
lives with one Mr James a Weaver at Shacklewell , is the
Father thereof, he having had carnal knowledge of her body
in her Master's House at Shacklewell aforesaid, sometime
in June last, but the particular day she does not now
Remember, and at several different times afterwards, at one
of which times he got her with the Child or Children of which she
is now pregnant and that the said Thomas Manhood< no role > and
no other person did beget the same, and that he is the real
and true Father thereof

Mary Bennett< no role >