Middlesex
to wit
Margaret Thomas< no role >
Aged about Twenty One Years
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
or ever Served any Apprenticeship Says she lived a hired
Yearly Servant
with one Mr. Ryan a Milkman in
Ship
Yard
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the Liberty of
Westminster
for upwards of Twelve Months at the Yearly
Wages of five Pounds hath quitted her said Service upwards
of Three Years ago since which time she hath ever lived as
a hired Yearly Servant for One Year 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
likely to become Chargable to the said Parish of St. Clement
Danes
(she being Poor and unable to maintain the same when
born) And further says that one
Evan Jones< no role >
a Journeyman Blacksmith
who lives at Mr. Dawson a Farrier & Blacksmith in
St. John Street
Clerkenwell
is the Father thereof he having had Carnal
knowledge of her Body in the House of Mrs. Coventry in
Islington
upwards of Twelve Months ago and at several
different times and places afterwards at one of which times he
got her with Child of the Child or Children of which she is
new pregnant and that the said
Evan Jones< no role >
and no other
person did beget the same and that he is the real & true
Father thereof
Sworn this 5th day
of January 1782
R Butler
her
Margt. [mark] Thomas< no role >
Mark