St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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20th June 1757 - 5th October 1763

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Image 153 of 38811th July 1761


Middx
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Note she has given a wrong Accot. hereof
her Settlemt.

Priscilla Rust< no role > aged about 25 Years Lodging in Strand
Lane in the Parish of St. Clement Danes in the County of
Middx upon Oath saith she never was Married kept House
was an Apprentice or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one
Year That her Father Joseph Rust< no role > was a Victualler &
lived in and rented a House at Hadley in the County of
Suffolk for about Three Months, cannot say what Rent
he paid that he dyed in the same about Twenty Years
since as she has been informed and which Information
she believes to be true And further upon her voluntary
Oath Says she is pregnant with Child or Children which
is likely to be Born a Bastard or Bastards and to
become Chargeable to the said Parish of St. Clement Danes
And that Richard Williams< no role > a Journeyman Taylor who
lodges at Mr. Trotters the Corner of Peter Street Clare
Market did beget such Child or Children he having
had Carnal Knowledge of her Body in the Month of
March 1761 and at several times since at one of which
times he got her with Child of the Child or Children with
which she is now pregnant

Sworn the 11th day of
July 1761 Before}




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