| Examination Text | The Examination of Mary Davis lodging with her sister Ann James at Mr Burke's a Stable Yard in Hedge Lane in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken this 31st Day of December 1776. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is about 21 years of age, that she never was married, that she was a yearly hired servant to Mr Powell a Silversmith near Craigs Court in the Parish aforesaid for the space of 15 months all under one hiring at the yearly wages of 5 pounds diet and lodging, quitted the same about eight months ago, that she hath not kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year nor paid any parish taxes since. And this Examinant on her voluntary oath further saith that she is big 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 Samuel Taylor a Porter at Mr Ashton's Wine Vaults in St Martin's Lane had carnal knowledge of her body about Michaelmas last on a bed in the fore Garret at the said Mr Ashton's house and several times afterwards at the same place at which or one of which times he the said Samuel Taylor did beget her with child or children she now goeth with and is pregnant of, and that he the said Samuel Taylor is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the 31st Day of December 1776 before [?]. |
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