| Examination Text | The Examination of Rebecca Doubley singlewoman taken upon oath this [blank] Day of October in the year of our Lord 1738. Who upon her oath saith that she is 19 years old, that she never was married or bound an apprentice, as she was born at Nottingham from whence she came almost three years ago and that she was a yearly hired servant to Captain William Horneck in Craven Street in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields within the liberty Westminster in the County of Middlesex whom she there served the space of one year and an half and upwards under one hiring for a year, that she had 4 pounds by the year wages diet and lodging and that she quitted that service six months ago, and then was servant to one Mrs Goodwin in Pall Mall in the Parish of St James Westminster whom she there served [?] and then her mistress perceiving her to be with child [?] her, that she this Examinant afterwards applying to the said Parish of St. James Westminster for relief was removed from thence the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, And further she this Examinant upon her voluntary oath saith that she is now Great with child which is or are likely be born a bastard or bastards and become chargeable unto the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that Captain William Horneck to whom she was a servant as aforesaid had carnal knowledge of her body in a room up one pair of stairs backwards in his said house in Craven Street aforesaid some time in the month of February last past and several times as well before a sinse at the same place at which or one of which times he begot her with child of the child or children which she goeth with and is pregnant of, and that he the said Capt William Horneck is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the said Day of October 1738 before me [blank]. |
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