| Examination Text | The Examination of Sarah Smith singlewoman in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken upon oath this 24th Day of December 1757. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is 22 years of age, that she never was married, that she was on the 28th day of November last delivered at the workhouse aforesaid of a female bastard child (since christened Mary) yet living and become chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that Thomas Smith a Shoemaker who lives next door to the Trunkmakers the corner of St Paul's churchyard had carnal knowledge of her body about the month of February last on a bed in a fore Garrett in the house of Mr Deale in Phenix Alley in Long Acre in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid at which time he the said Thomas Smith did beget on her body the said female bastard child, and that he the said Thomas Smith is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year abovesaid before Thomas Kynaston, Thomas Balack. |
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