Middx
&
Westmr.}
Elizth. Best< no role >
Aged about Twenty Seven Years upon
her Voluntary Oath says she never was married And
that on the fifteenth day of March 1765 she was
delivered of a Male Bastard Child in the House of
Mr. Savage a Stocking Weaver in Carey Street
in the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the Liberty of
Westminster
in the County of Middlesex
which hath
since been Baptized by the Name of
William Henry< no role >
Says that one
William Sturges< no role >
late Book keeper to Mr. Heath
Fishmonger
at Temple Bar
in the said Parish of
St. Clement Danes
is the Father thereof he having
had Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the
Month of June 1764 and at several different times
afterwards at one of which times he got her with
Child of the Male Bastard Child of which she was
delivered as aforesaid And that the said
William
Sturges< no role >
and no other person is the true and real Father
thereof.
Sworn this 26th. day of
May 1769
before} [..]
her
Elizth. [mark] Best< no role >
Mark
Witness
Petr Sidebotham< no role >