Middlesex
&
Westminster}

Mary Bissell< no role > aged about Twenty five Years
now living at No.15 Vere Street on her Oath Says
she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes
Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with Mr. Nelson
Oilman< no role > in the Strand in the Parish of St. Clement Danes in
the County of Middlesex for 14 Months at the Yearly Wages
of Six pounds hath quitted her said Service about Six 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 and to become Chargable to the said Parish of
St. Clement Danes And further Says that one James Batty< no role > a
Butcher in Clare Markett is the Father thereof he having had
Carnal knowledge of her Body at her Lodgings in Holles Street
sometime in the Month of September last but the Particular
day she does not now remember and 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 said James Batty< no role > and no other Person did beget the same
and that he is the real and true Father thereof.

her
Mary [mark] Bissell< no role >
mark