| Examination Text | The Examination of Elizabeth Chapman passed from the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden within the liberty of Westminster to the Parish of St Martin in the Fields in the same liberty taken on her oath this second Day of January 1772. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is 30 years of age, that she never was married, that she was a yearly hired servant to Mr Coggan, Coffee House Keeper the corner of Cecil Street in the Strand in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of 15 months all at one time at the yearly wages of 7 pounds diet and lodging, quitted the same about three 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, 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 Ambrose Larking a Chairman to be found at Mr Hart's Cellar in Pall Mall did beget her with child or children she now goeth with and is pregnant of, and that he the said Ambrose Larking is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year abovesaid before Thomas Kynaston. [In the margin:] [?] Servt. [?] Villers [?]. |
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