Middlesex
to wit
Sarah Stone< no role >
Aged about Twenty Seven
Years On her Oath Says she never was married Rented
House or paid Taxes Says she lived as a Covenanted
Servant to learn the Business of a Book binder
with
one
William Morless< no role >
a Book binder
in
Bear Alley
in the little Old Bailey
in the Parish of St. Sepulchre
London
for three Years and after she was out of her
time she never Rented House paid Taxes or lived a hired
Yearly Servant for one Year And further says that on
the 23d. day of December last
she was delivered of
Two Bastard Children in the House of one Mr. Gregory
in
Change Court
Saint Clement Danes
which area
intended to be called
John< no role >
and
Elizabeth< no role >
And that
one
John Smelly< no role >
a Journeyman Book binder
and
who now lived at Mr. Bells a Bookseller in the Strand
is the Father of the said Children And that this
Examinant hath gained no other Settlement than
as aforesaid
Sworn this 14th.
day of May 1776
before
R Butler Wm Kitchiner< no role >
her [mark] mark