Middlesex
&
Westmr.}
Mary Dax< no role > This name instance is in set 5803222.
Aged about Twenty five Years on her Oath
Says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes
Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mr.
Davison a Taylor in
Fountain Court
Strand
in the Parish
of St. Clement Danes
in the County of Middlesex
for fifteen
Months at the Yearly Wages of four Pounds hath quitted
her said Service about Seven Months ago since which
time she hath gained no or Subsequent Settlement And
further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant with
Child or Children which is or an likely to be born a Bastard
or Bastards and to become chargable to the said Parish
(she being Poor and unable to maintain the same when
born) Says that one
James Madin< no role > This name instance is in set 2086.
a Porter to a Chairman
in
Thames Street
Opposite Garlick Hill
is the Father
thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge of her Body
some time the Middle of September last in her said Martin House But 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
James Madin< no role >
and no other person did beget
the same and that he is the real and true Father thereof
Sworn this 4th. day
of May 1778
before me
Wm Kitchiner< no role >
her
Mary [mark] Dax< no role >
Mark