| Examination Text | The Examination of Hannah Butler passed from the parish St Luke in the County of Middlesex to the Parish of St Martin in the Fields in the same county taken this 29th day of March 1774. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is 34 years of age, that she never was married, that she was a yearly hired servant to Mr Thomas Powell a Chaser in Angel Court near Charing Cross in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of two years all under one hiring at the yearly wages of 5 pounds diet and lodging, that she quitted the said service about 10 years ago, that she hath not kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor been a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together since, that she was on the 24th Day of February last delivered in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields of a female bastard child (since christened Hannah) yet living and is become chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin the Fields, and that Seymour Bunce a Cabinet Maker by trade (which said Seymour Bunce died about nine months ago) did beget on her body the said female bastard child, and that he the said Seymour Bunce was the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year above written before Thomas Kynaston. |
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