Saint Clement Danes
Middlesex
and
Westminster}
Chayes Edwd.
Cooper< no role >
with
Child named
Jas Cooper< no role >
born
in Essex St
Qr if taken
to wit
Mary Godfrey< no role >
aged 33 years or
thereabouts upon her Oath saith that she
never was married Rented House or Tene
[..]
of 10 Pounds a year Paid Taxes Saith that she
lived 5 years as a hired yearly Servant
with
one Mr. Darby in
East Street
Red Lyon Square
in the Parish of Saint Geo: Queen Square
at
the yearly Wages of Nine Guineas hath quitted
said Service only a week ago that on or about
the 4th Sept. 1778 she was delivered of a male
bastard Child at the House of one
Edwd. Wheeler< no role >
a Green Grocer
in
Essex Street
in the Parish
of Saint Clement Danes
afterwards
Christened at St. Clements Church
by the
name of
James Cooper< no role >
that
Edwd. Cooper< no role >
a Gentlemans Servant
who lately lived
with a Mr. Edward
No. 22 Percy Street
Rathbone Place
and no one else in the
Real and true father thereof he having
had Carnal Knowledge of her
Body and be gotten the same that the said