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 215 of 3738th October 1774


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Elizth. King< no role > Aged about 21 Years on her Oath
Says she never was married Rented House or paid
Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with one
Mr. Lear a Brushmaker in the Strand in the Parish
of Saint Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex for
Eighteen Months at the Yearly Wages of Three pounds hath
quitted her said Service upwards of One Year 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 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 Saml. Crutchill< no role > a Labourer and who
now works for one Mr. Spires a Coalmerchant at Point
Pleasant near Putney Jurry and who lodges at Mr. Cloats Blacksmith in Garrett Lane [..] is the Father thereof he having
had Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in March
last but the particular Day she does not now remember and
at sevl. different times afterwards at one of which times he
got her with Child of the Child or Children of which she is
now prgnant as afsd. and that the said Saml. Crutchill< no role > and
no other person did beget the same and that he is the real
and true Father thereof


Sworn this 8th. day of
Octr. 1774 before
W Addington

her
Elizth. [mark] King< no role >
mark




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