Middx
to wit
Mary Neale< no role >
Aged about Thirty five Years on her Oath
Says she never was married Rented House or paid Taxes Says
she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one Mr. Smith who lately kept
the Cold Bath
in Surry Street
in the Strand
in the Parish of Saint
Clement Danes
in the County of Middlesex
for fourteen Months
at the Yearly Wages of Seven pounds hath quitted her said Service
about Ten Months ago since which time she hath gained no other
Settlement 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 Chargable to the said Parish of Saint
Clement Danes (she being Poor and unable to maintain the same
when born) And further says that one
Edward Stanton< no role >
a Waiter
at the Hercules-Tavern
in Great Queen Street
Lincolns Inn
Fields
is the Father thereof he having had Carnal of her Body
in the said Tavern some time in the the Month 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 Stanton< 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 1783
before
R Butler
Mary Neal< no role >