Westmr-
to wit
Elizth- Ryland< no role >
aged about twenty three 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
Joseph Ryland< no role >
Rented and lived in
a house in
Holles Street
Clare Markett
in the parish of
St. Clement Danes
for three Years at the Yearly Rent
of £22 hath quitted the said house about 16 Years ago
and after quitting the same he never Rented house
paid Taxes or gained any or- subseqt- Settlemt.
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 St Clement Danes
she being poor and unable to maintain the same when
born Says that one
Stephen Fish< no role >
a Servant
to the
Revd
-
Seymour Leake< no role >
at
Axley Hall
near Stow
Markett
Suffolk
is the Father thereof he having had
carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the
Month of June but the particular day she does not
now remember at which time he got her with Child of
the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant
and that the said
Stephen Fish< no role >
and no other person
did beget the same & that he is the real & true father throf
Sworn this 24th- Day
of January 1778
before
Wm Kitchiner< no role >
her
Elizth- [mark] Ryland< no role >
Mark