Bastards

St Clement Danes May 30th
1792

Middlesex
&
Westminster }

St CD

Pregnt.

(to wit) Mary Crutchley< no role > singlewoman
aged 24 years or thereabouts upon
Oath saith That She never was Married, that she
lived as an hired yearly Servant hath never
acquired any Settlement in her own Right That
her Father rented and resided in a House in
Houghton Street in the parish of St Clement Danes
in the County of Middlesex and Liberty of
Westminster for about 3 years and an half at the Annual Rent
of £30 and quitted the same about four years
ago since which time heh he hath never
obtained any subsequent legal Settlement and
this Deponent upon her Voluntary Oath further
saith That she is now Pregnant Pregnant with
a Child or Children which is or are likely to
be born a Bastard or Bastards and to be
become chargeable to the said parish of St
Clement Danes when born and That William
Johnson< no role > a labouring Man who
works with [..] in a Timber yard
called the Hog yard in Limehouse in the
County of Middlesex and resides at No. 2 in
Soap House rents [..] Limehouse aforesaid [..]
[..]
is the only real true father of such Child or
Children where with she is so pregnant he having
had Carnal knowledge of this Deponent's Body sometime
on or about the Month of October last about
Seven Months ago and once since which was
about the end of March last at one of which
times he did beget the Child or Children
wherewith she is now pregnant on the Body