St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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27th October 1772 - 17th May 1776

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Image 120 of 3737th August 1773


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to wit Elizabeth Prior< no role > aged about Twenty Years on
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
Paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year
Says her Father Henry Prior< no role > Rented and lived in a House
in Mill Yard in the Parish of St. Mary White Chapel in
the County of Middlesex for Eight Years or thereabouts
at the Yearly Rent of Twenty Pounds and upwards where
her said Father died and her Mother afterwards kept she
same upwards of half a Year hath quitted the same
upwards of Three Years and hath not since quitted the
same ever Rented Ten Pounds a Year paid Taxes or
otherwise gained any subsequent Settlement and further
upon her Voluntary Oath Says that on the Second day
of August Instant she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child
in the Workhouse belonging to this Parishnot [..] Baptizedwhich hath since been Baptized Peter< no role >
Says that one Peter Taylor< no role > a Coal heaver and who lodges at
the Bull in Milford Lane had Carnal knowledge of her
Body in the Month of January 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 Peter Taylor< no role > and no other Person
did beget the same and that he is the real and true Father
thereof


Sworn this 7th. day
August 1773 before
R. Butler

Elizabeth Prior< no role >




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