| Examination Text | The Examination of Mary Towes singlewoman lodging at Mrs Cope's in Castle Street Leicester Fields in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken upon oath this fourth Day of December 1750. This Examinant on her oath says that she is 22 years of age and never was married bound an apprentice kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year or paid any parish taxes, but that she was a yearly hired servant to James Corbridge, a Custom House Officer in Lewes in the County of Surrey for the space of one year and upwards at the yearly wages of 40 shillings diet and lodging, quitted the same about six years ago and hath not 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 was on the 10th day of November last delivered at the house of Mrs. Cope's 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 Fortunatus Duwarris, Doctor of Physick late at Mr Dixon's an Apothecary in the borough of Southwark had carnal knowledge of her body about the latter end of February last in the house of Mr Dixon's aforesaid in a room up one pair of stairs backwards in the said house on a bed there and several times at the same place at which or the times he the said Fortunatus Duwarris did beget on her body the said female bastard child, and that he the said Fortunatus Duwarris is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year abovesaid before James Fraser. |
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