Middx
to wit
Alice Stidaway < no role >
Aged about Twenty five Years On her Oath
says She never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes say
She lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mr. Mason a
Butcher at
Abergavenny
South Wales
in the County of Mon
[..]
Upwards of One Year at the Yearly Wages of Four Pounds
hath quitted her said Service about Six Years ago since
which time She hat gained no other Subsequent Settlement
And further on her Voluntary Oath says that on the 17th. day
January Instant
She was delivered of a Female Bastard
Child in the House of Mr. Burke in
Wych Street
in the Parish
of Saint Clement Danes
which is intended to be baptized
Elizabeth< no role >
and is become Chargeable to the same she being Poor
And Unable to Maintain the same
[..] and that One
Edw [..]
Edwards< no role >
late a Waiter
at the
Oxford Coffee House
in the St
[..]
And who now lodges
Opposite a Coal Shed
in Exeter Street
had Carnal knowledge of her Body at the
Crown Eating Hous
[..]
in Princes Street
facing the Mansion House
in the City of London
the latter End of March 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 was so delivered And that the said
Edwards Edwards< no role >
and no other person did beget the same &
that he is the Rent & true Father thereof
Sworn this 31st. day of
Janry. 1780
before
Wm. Kitchiner< no role >
her
Alice [mark] Stidaway< no role >
Mark