Westmr
to wit
Elizth. Shields< no role >
Aged about Thirty Eight Years
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with
one Mr. Jones who Kept
the Taylors Arms
now Known by the
Name of the Swan
in Holywell Street
in the Parish of
Saint Clement Danes
in the Liberty of Westminster
for
Fifteen Months at the Yearly Wages of Three Pounds has
quitted her said Service upwards of Ten Years ago and
hath not since she quitted the same ever Rented House paid
Taxes 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 she being
Poor and unable to maintain the same when born says
that one
Bartholomew Lowe< no role >
a Fishing Tackle maker
who
now Uses
the Sign of the Red Lyon and Still
in Drury Lane
is the Father Thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge of
her Body for Seventeen Months Past 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
Bartholomew
Lowe< no role >
and no other Person did beget the same and that
he is the real and true Father thereof
Sworn this 11th. day
of Febry 1774
before
Sampn Wright< no role >
her
Elizth [mark]
[..] Shilds< no role >
Mark