Middx
to wit
Elizabeth Stewart< no role >
Aged about nineteen years on her Oath says she
never was Married Rented House paid Taxes was an Apprentice or ever
lived a hired yearly Servant for One year says her Father
William
Stewart< no role >
now Rents and lives in a House in
Water Street
in the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the County of Middlesex
and as so
done for three years and upwards at the yearly Rent of Fourteen
Pounds and
[..] pays Parish Taxes due for the same and further
on 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 Chargeable to the said Parish (she being poor and
unable to maintain the same when born) and that One
James Richardson< no role >
an attorney
, as she Believes, who lives at
>No 6 Ground Floor
Lyons
Inn
in the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes
is the Father thereof
he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body at his Brothers Chambers in Lyons Inn
aforesaid some time in the
Months of November last but the particular Day she does not now
now remember and at several 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
James Richardson< no role >
and no
other person did beget the same and that he is the real and true
Father thereof
Sworn this 7th. Day
of May 1781
before
Sampn Wright< no role >
her
Elizth. [mark] Stewart< no role >
mark