St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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12th October 1768 - 21st October 1772

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Image 176 of 40418th September 1770


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Eleanor Butler< no role > Aged about 21 Years on her Oath Says she
never was Married nor ever Rented House or paid Taxes Says
she lived a Hired Yearly Servant with one Thomas Harley< no role >
who kept the Crown Ale house in Vere Street Clare Market
in the Parish of St: Clement Danes in the Liberty of
Westminster for fourteen Months or thereabouts at the
Yearly Wages of Five Pounds hath quitted her said Service
about three Years ago and hath not since she quitted the
same ever Rented House paid Taxes or lived a Hired Yearly
Servant for one Year 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
chargeable to the said Parish of St: Clement Danes she being
poor and unable to maintain the same when born Says that
one Stephen Hunter< no role > Sadler who lately worked with one
Mr: Bambo a Sadler and Capmaker in Grays Inn Lane
in the parish of St: Andrew Holborn had Carnal knowledge
of her Body sometime in or about the Month of February
last but the particular day she does not 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 as aforesaid And that the said Stephen Hunter< no role > and no
other person did beget the same and that he is the true and real
Father thereof

Sworn this 18th: day of Septr:
1770 before me} Thos Kynaston< no role >

The mark of
[mark]
Eleanor Butler< no role >

Witness
Will: Hughes< no role >




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