| Examination Text | The Examination of Mary Davis singlewoman in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken this fifth day of June 1762. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is 28 years of age, that she never was married, that she was on the third Day of May last delivered at the workhouse aforesaid of a Male bastard child (since christened John) yet living and become chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that William Talbot who was apprentice to Mr Nisbitt an Apothecary in Green Street (but that she cannot tell where he is now) did beget on her body the said Male bastard child, that he the said William Talbot is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year abovesaid before Benjamin Cox. |
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