Middlesex
&
Westmr.}
Elizth. Martin< no role >
Aged about Twenty Seven Years on
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
or paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mr. Burnett an Upholsterer in
the Strand
in the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the County of Middlesex
for Three Years and Eight Months at the Yearly Wages of
Seven Pounds hath quitted her said Service about Three Weeks
ago and hath not since she quitted the same ever done any Act
whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement 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
Edward Lewis< no role >
a Porter
to her said late Master had Carnal
knowledge of her Body in her said late Masters House the
latter End of November 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 said
Edward Lewis< no role >
and no other person did beget the same and
that he is the real and true Father thereof.
Sworn this 18th. day
of June 1776
before
M Addington
her
Elizth. [mark] Martin< no role >
Mark