| Examination Text | The Examination of Frances Carter singlewoman taken upon oath this [blank] Day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 1739. Who upon her oath saith that she is 20 years old, that she never was married, that she was born at Hishenton in Salisbury, that she never kept house rented 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was bound apprentice, that her father John Carter who is a Collar Maker keeps a house at Hishenton aforesaid at the yearly rent of 2 pounds and upwards and has so done upwards of 20 years, but whether he paid to the pooror served any annual office there knows not nor ever heard, that she was a yearly hired servant to one John Wilkinson who kept the Bell in Stall Street in the city of Bath whom she there served near a year, that her father then sent for her to Hishenton which is about a year ago, that she stayed with her father near [blank] months and then went to Bath again where she stayed about a quarter of a year then came to London and was hired to one Marmaduke Jackson a Shoemaker in Round Court in the Strand whom she there served three months and quitted that service two months ago and hath lodged in his house ever since, And further upon her voluntary oath saith that she is now Great with child which is or are likely to be born a bastard or bastards and to become chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that one John Dunn a Surgeon in the the Abby Churchyard in the city of Bath had carnal knowledge of her body some time at the beginning of the month of April last past in a house of one Mr Rich, a Mason in Kings Mead in the said city of Bath in the room one pair of stairs backwards in the said house and several times since at the said house at which or one of which times he begot her with child of the child or children she now goeth with and is pregnant of, and that he the said John Dunn is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the [blank]. |
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