Middlesex
to wit
Mary Peake< no role >
Aged about Twenty Three Gears on
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes
Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with Mr. Holden on Apothecary
in the Strand
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the County
of Middlesex
for One whole Year at the Yearly Wages of Seven
Pounds Twelve Shillings hath quitted her said Service upwards of Two Months ago
since which time she hath gained no other Settlement and further
on her Voluntary Oath Says that on the Eighteenth day of June
last she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child which hath
since been baptized by the name of
Charles< no role >
and is become
Chargable to the said Parish (she being poor and unable to
maintain the same) And further says that one
Charles Roberts< no role >
a Journey Appothecary
to Mr. Holden in the Strand
is the Father
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her body sometime
in the Month of September last in her said Masters House in
the Strand 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 Male Bastard Child of which so delivered
as aforesaid and that the said
Charles Roberts< no role >
and no other
person did begett the same & that he is the real & true Father
thereof.
Sworn this 30th. day
of July 1784
- before-
Wm Kitchiner< no role >
Marey Peake< no role >