Middx
&
Westmr.}
Sarah Pees< no role >
Aged about Twenty four Years on her
Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid
Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with Messrs
Berridge and Anderson at
the five Bell Tavern
in the
Strand
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the Liberty
of Westmr
. for Thirteen Months at the Yearly Wages of
Six Guineas hath quitted her said Service about Two
Months ago since which she hath done no Act whereby to
gain a Subsequent Settlemt. 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
Chargable to the said Parish she being poor and unable to
maintain the same when born Says that one
Evans Rice< no role >
late a Porter
to her said Master but where he now is she
does not know had Carnal knowledge of her Body in her sd.
Masters House the latter end of Decr. 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 Child or Children of which she is now pregnant and that
the said
Evans Rice< no role >
and no other person did beget the same
And that he is the real and true Father thereof.
Sworn this 2d. day
of Septr. 1774
before
William Addington< no role >
her
Sarah [mark] Pees< no role >
Mark