St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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26th January 1779 - 29th March 1783

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Image 50 of 38330th June 1779


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to wit Elizabeth Bainbridge< no role > Aged about Nineteen Years
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or
paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant wth. Doctor
Brocklesby in Norfolk Street in the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes in the County of Middlesex for thirteen Months at the
Yearly Wages of Eight pounds hath quitted her said Service
about a fortnight ago since which time she hath gained no other
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 become chargable
to the said Parish she being poor and unable to maintain the
samewhen when born And that one William Crisp< no role > a Farrier in
the Kings Mews did beget such Bastard Child on her Body he
having had Carnal Knowledge of her Body at his the said Crisp's
Uncles House in Chandos Street sometime in the Month of
November 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 Child of the Child or Children of which she is
now pregnant and that the said William Crisp< no role > and no other
Person did bog the same and that he is the real and true father
thereof.


Sworn this 30th. day
of June 1779 before
M Addington

her
Elizth. [mark] Bainbridge< no role >
Mark




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