Middlesex

to wit Mary Cook< no role > Aged about Twenty Two Years on her
Oath Says she never was married Rented House or Paid Taxes
Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with Mr. Strutt at the Hartichoak
in Clare Street in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the Liberty
of Westminster for several Years at the Yearly Wages of five
Pounds hath Quitted her said Service About Twelve Months
ago since which time she hath gained no other Settlement And
further on her voluntary Oath Says she is pregnant with Child
or Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
Bastards & to become Chargable to the said Parish of Saint
Clement Danes (she being poor and unable to maintain the same
when born) And further says that one Leonard King< no role > a Journeyman
Taylor who lodges at No.3 in Bayley Court Bell Yard & who Uses
the Hartichoak in Clare Street is the Father thereof he having had
Carnal Knowledge of her Body at her Mothers Lodgings in Holbourn
Street Clare Markett sometime in the Month of June last but the
particular Day she does not now remember & at sevl 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 sd Leonard
King and other person did beget the same and that he is the
real and true Father thereof

Mary Cooke< no role >