Westmr.
to wit
Elizth. Bristow< no role >
aged about Twenty Seven
Years on her Oath Says she never was married Rented
House or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mr
James Ward< no role >
a Cheesemonger
in
Black
[..]
Street
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the
Liberty of Westminster
for One Year and upwards at the
Yearly Wages of Six Pounds hath quitted her said Service
upwards of Six Months and hath not since Rented House
or done any other act whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement
and further upon her Voluntary Oath Says she was Yearly
delivered of a Male Bastard Child in the Workhouse
belonging to this Parish and further says that one
Isaac
Sleigh< no role >
Journeyman
to the said Mr. Ward had Carnal
Knowledge of her Body in his the said Mr. Wards house sometime in the Month of October
last but the Particular Day she does not now remember
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 so delivered as aforesaid and that the said
Isaac Sleigh< no role >
and no other Person did beget the same &
that he is the real and true Father thereof
Sworn this 14th. day
of July 1773
before
R. Butler
her
Elizth. [mark] Bristow< no role >
Mark