Middlesex
&
Westminster}

Jane Stepney< no role > Aged about Twenty Nine
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 John
Stepney< no role > was a Welshman and never gained any
Settlement in England to her knowledge or belief Says she
was born in Clements Lane in the parish of Saint Clement
Danes as her Aunt has often Informed her and which
Information the verily believes to be true And further
upon her Voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant wth. Child or
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
Bastards & to become chargable to the said Parish she
being Poor and unable to maintain the same when born
Says that one Joseph Porter< no role > a Journeyman Shoemaker
who lodges at Mrs. Edwards a Chandlers Shop in Clements
Lane aforesaid is the Father thereof he having had
Carnal Knowledge of her Body in the said Mrs. Edwards's
House in Clements Lane afsd. upwards of Two Years ago 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 afsd. And that the said Joseph Porter< no role >
and no other person did beget the same and that he is
the real & true Father thereof

her
Jane [mark] Stepney< no role >
Mark