Middlesex

to wit Ann Ratcliff< no role > Aged about Twenty Three Years On her
Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes
says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with Mr. Manning a Honer
near Temple Bar in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the
County of Middlesex upwards of one and an half at the Yearly
Wages of Six pounds hath quitted her said Service about Three
Months ago since which time she hath gained no other subsequent
Settlement And further on her Oath Says that on the fourteenth
Day of July last she was delivered of a Female Bastard Child
in Saint Bartholomews Hospital London which hath since been baptized by the Name of Mary Ann< no role > and
is likely to become Chargable to the said Parish she being poor
and unable to maintain the same And that one Wm. Manning
Junr< no role > . did beget such Bastard Child on her body he having had
Carnal knowledge thereof same time in the Month of September
last but the Particular day she does not now remember and at
several times afterwards at one of which times he got her with
Child of the Female Bastard Child of which she was so delivered
and that the said William Manning< no role > and no other Person did
beget the same and that he is the real & true father thereof

Ann Ratcliffe< no role >