| Examination Text | The Examination of Mary Baynes singlewoman in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken this upon oath this eighth day of January 1765. This Examinant upon her oath saith that she is 23 years of age, never was married, that she was upon the fifth day of December last delivered in this workhouse of and in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields of a Male bastard child (since christened Elias) yet living and become chargeable to the said Parish, and that Elias Hilliard, apprentice to Mr Purver a Printer in Red Lyon Court, Fleet Street had carnal knowledge of her body on the first Day of January 1764 on a bed in a back room up one pair of stairs at this the house of Mr Stillwell in Russell Street, Drury Lane and many times afterwards at the same and different places at which or one of which times he the said Elias Hilliard did beget on her body the said Male bastard child and that he the said the Elias Hilliard is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the Day and year abovesaid before Benjamin Cox, Thomas Kynaston. |
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