Middlesex
to wit
Mary Jones< no role >
Aged about Thirty one Years on
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House was
an Apprentice or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly
Servant
with
Lovelace Bigge< no role >
Esqr
. in
Boswell Court
Carey
Street
in the Parish of St. Clement Danes
in the LIberty of Westmr
.
for Two Years and an half at the Yearly Wages of Six pounds
hath quitted her said Service upwards of Six 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 Chargable to the said Parish of St. Clement Danes
she being Poor and unable to maintain the same when born
Says that one
Andrew Moore< no role >
a Bricklayer
who lately worked
with one Mr. Bell in Long Acre
but where he now works she
does not know is the Father thereof he having had Carnal
knowledge of her Body at
the Barley Mow
in Milford Lane
sometime in April 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 pregnant and that the sd.
Andrew Moore< no role >
and no other person did beget the same &
that he is the real and true Father thereof.
Sworn this 2d. day
of Decr. 1774
before
Tho Lane< no role >
Mary Jones< no role >