| Examination Text | The Examination of Elizabeth Norris singlewoman lodging at Mrs Gregory's in Vine Street in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken upon oath this sixth Day of January 1750. This Examinant upon her oath saith that she is upwards of 18 years of age and never was married bound an apprentice kept house rented £10 by the year or paid any parish taxes, but that she was a yearly hired servant to Mr Crown at the Leopold's Head in Chandos Street in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of 12 months at the yearly wages of 3 pounds 10 shillings diet and lodging, quitted the same about a year and an half ago and hath not lived in any one place for 12 months together since, And this Examinant upon her voluntary oath further saith that she is now Great with child or children which is or are likely to be born a bastard or bastards and to become chargeable to the Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that James Carey son of Mr Seth Carey who keeps the Bell alehouse in King Street Westminster had carnal knowledge of her body about the beginning of the month of March last in and upon a bed in a room up two pair of stairs backwards at a house then belonging to the said Mr Seth Carey in Angel Court near Storey's Gate Westminster (where this Examinant then lived as a servant) and several times afterwards at the same place at which or one of which times he the said James Carey did beget her with child of the child or children she now goeth with and is pregnant of, and that he the said James Carey is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year abovesaid before James Fraser. |
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