| Examination Text | Mary Symonds aged 22 years in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields passed from the Parish of St. Mary le Bone in the County of Middlesex upon her oath saith she never was married nor bound an apprentice, that she was a yearly hired servant to Mr Pain in Bedfordbury in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of one year and a quarter at the yearly wages of 4 pounds diet and lodging, quitted the same about four years ago and hath not kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes or been a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together since, And this Examinant on her voluntary oath further saith that she is now Great 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 Martin in the Fields, and that [blank] Gurnys, a Corn Factor in [?] London had carnal knowledge of her body about the latter end of September last in upon a bed in the Garret at Mr Mallards house in [?] aforesaid and several times after at the same and other parts of the said Mr Malllards house at which or one of times he the said blank Gurnys did beget her with child of the child or children she now goeth with and is pregnant of, and that he the said blank Gurnys is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the sixth Day of September 1760 before Benjamin Cox. |
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