Middlesex
to wit
Ann Ratcliff< no role >
Aged about Twenty Three Years On her
Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes
says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with Mr. Manning a Honer
near Temple Bar
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the
County of Middlesex
upwards of one and an half at the Yearly
Wages of Six pounds hath quitted her said Service about Three
Months ago since which time she hath gained no other subsequent
Settlement And further on her Oath Says that on the fourteenth
Day of July last
she was delivered of a Female Bastard Child
in
Saint Bartholomews Hospital
London
which hath since been baptized by the Name of
Mary Ann< no role >
and
is likely to become Chargable to the said Parish she being poor
and unable to maintain the same And that one
Wm. Manning
Junr< no role >
. did beget such Bastard Child on her body he having had
Carnal knowledge thereof same time in the Month of September
last but the Particular day she does not now remember and at
several times afterwards at one of which times he got her with
Child of the Female Bastard Child of which she was so delivered
and that the said
William Manning< no role >
and no other Person did
beget the same and that he is the real & true father thereof
Sworn this 5th. day
of Augt. 1779
before
R Butler
Ann Ratcliffe< no role >