| Examination Text | The Examination of Ann McGinnis lodging in a milk cellar the corner of St Martin's Court in St Martin's Lane in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken this first Day of February 1782. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is 18 years of age and upwards, that she never was married nor bound an apprentice, that she was a yearly hired servant to Mr Wayland in Vine St and Old Round Court in the Parish aforesaid for the space of three years all under one hiring at the yearly wages of 4 pounds diet and lodging, quitted the same last May, 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 now big with child or children which is or are likely to be born a bastard or bastards and to become chargeable to the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, and that Nathaniel Collier a journeyman Shoemaker had carnal knowledge of her body but the particular time she cannot remember in and upon a bed in a room up three pair of stairs backwards at a house known by the sign of the Peasey Arms near St Martin's Lane in the Strand and several times afterwards in the same place at which time or one of which times he the said Nathaniel Collier did beget her with child or children she now goeth with and is pregnant of, and that he the said Nathaniel Collier is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the first Day of February 1782 before William Hyde. |
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