| Examination Text | The Examination of Ann Bedward lodging at Mr Watson's a Shoemaker next Inn Yard in that part of Castle Street by Long Acre which is in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster taken upon oath this sixth Day of August in the year of our Lord 1770. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is about 26 years of age, that she never was married, that she was on the seventh Day of July last delivered at the house of Mr Watson aforesaid in the Parish aforesaid of a female bastard child (since christened Elizabeth) yet living and is become chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that John Hinge a servant to Mr Firmin, Button Maker near the New Church in the Strand did beget on her body the said female bastard child, and that he the said John Hinge is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year abovesaid before Thomas Kynaston, Peter Planck. |
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