Westmr.
to wit
Sarah Monk< no role >
aged about 30 Years on her Oath Says
she never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes.
Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with one Mr.
Cossins at the Sign of the Ship in Drury Lane
in the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the Liberty of
Westminster
for 4 Years or thereabouts at the Yearly
Wages of £4. hath quitted her said Service about 4 Years
ago and hath not Since she quitted the same ever
Rented House or 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 & to become
Chargable to the said Parish of Saint Clement Danes
she being Poor and unable to maintain the same when
born Says that one
John Hayslip< no role >
a Journeyman
Taylor who lately lodged in Crown Court
Chandos Street
and who now as she believes us the Rose and Crown
in
in Clare Court
or the Bell and Drogon in Chandos Street
aforesaid had Carnal Knowledge of her body sometime in the
begining of August last but the particular day she does
not now remember at her lodgings in the Minories
and
also a second time at Mr. Mackeys in Craven head.
Yard in Drury Lane
at one of which times he got her
with Child of the Child or Children of which she is now
pregnant as afsd. & that the said
John Heyslip< no role >
& no Other
Person did beget the same and that is his the real & true
Father thereof
Sworn this 17 day of
January 1772
before} [..]
her
Sarah [mark] Monk< no role >
mark