Middlesex
&
Westmr.

to wit Martha Edwards< no role > aged about Twenty one Years
on her Oath Says she never was Married Rented
House or paid Taxes Says she lived as a Yearly
Hired Servant with Nathaniel Davis< no role > at the Temple
Coffee house in Devereux Court in the Parish of Saint
Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex upwards
of Twelve Months at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds
hath quitted her said Service about four Months ago
& hath not since she quitted the same ever Rented House
or paid Taxes 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 & to become
Chargeable to the said Parish she being Poor and unable to
maintain the same when born Says that one Christopher
Burn< no role > a Waiter at Dobneys Gardens Islington is the
Father thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her
Body in her said Masters House sometime in December
last but the particular day she does not now remember
only that it was on a Sunday 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 Christopher Burn< no role > and no other person did beget the
same and that he is the real and true Father there of.

Sworn this 7th. day of
July 1772 before} Tho Lane< no role >

her
Martha [mark] Edwards< no role >
mark