Middx
Ann Hales< no role >
Aged about twenty four 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 Mrs. Cooksey in the Parish of
Saint Clements
in the City of
Worcester
for upwards of one Year at the Yearly Wages of forty
shillings hath quitted her said Service about four Years ago
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 Mr.
Andrew
Parry< no role >
an Attorney at Law
in
Clements Inn
in the Parish of St.
Clement Danes
is the Father thereof he having had carnal
Knowledge of her Body sometime in the Month of September
last 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 Mr.
Andrew Parry< no role >
and
no other person did beget the same and that he is the real
and true Father thereof
Sworn the 30th Day
of May 1777
before me} [..]
Ann Hales< no role >