| Examination Text | The Examination of Elizabeth Norris singlewoman in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken upon oath this seventh Day of February 1750. This Examinant on her oath says that she is upwards of 18 years of age and never was married bound an apprentice kept house rented 10 pounds 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 a half ago, and hath not lived in any one place for 12 months together since, And this Examinant on her voluntary oath further saith that she was on the 25th day of January last delivered of a Male bastard child (since christened Peter) in the workhouse of and in 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 in 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 on her body the said Male bastard child, 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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