Westmr. ss

Phebe Hughes< no role > aged about Nineteen Years on her
Oath says she never was married or ever Rented House
paid Taxes was an Apprentice or lived a hired Yearly
Servant for one year And further upon 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 Chargeable to the said Parish of Saint
Clement Danes she being poor and unable to maintain
the same when born Says that one Peter James Meesinck< no role >
a Scene Painter, belonging to Drury Lane Playhouse
had Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime the
beginning of January last past and at several 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 Peter James Meesinck
and no other person did beget the same and that he
is the real and true Father thereof.

Sworn this 17th. day of
October 1769 before me} [..]

Phebe [mark] hughes< no role >