Middx
Margt. Davidson< no role >
Aged about twenty five Years on her Oath
says she never was married Rented house
[..] paid Taxes or
ever served any Apprenticeship Says she lived a hired Yearly
Servant
with one Mr. Speediman in
the Strand
in the Parish of
St. Clement Danes
in the County of Middlesex
upwards of two
Years at the Yearly Wages of £8 hath quitted her said
Service upwards of One Month since which time she hath
never gained any other subsequent Settlement And further
upon her Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant with Child or
Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards
and to become chargeable to the said Parish of Saint Clement
Danes
(she being poor and unable to maintain the same
when born) Says that one
Charles Douglas< no role >
a Carpenter
in
Wych Street
in the said Parish of St. Clement Danes
is the
Father thereof he having had carnal Knowledge of her Body
sometime in the Month of October but the particular Day
she does not now remember and at sevl. different times
afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of
the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant and that
the said
Charles Douglas< no role >
and no other person did beget the
same and that he is the real and true Father thereof
Sworn the 27th. Day
of May 1777
before me} [..]
Margreat Davidson< no role >