Middx
to wit
Frances Spencer< no role >
Aged upwards of Twenty
five Years on her Oath Says she never was married
Rented House or paid Taxes Says she has lived with
her present Master Mr.
John Dringal< no role >
the Feathers
Tavern
in the Strand
in the Parish of St. Clement
Danes
in the County of Middlesex
upwards of One Year
and a Quarter at the Yearly Wages of Seven pounds
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 Chargable
to the said Parish she being Poor and unable to maintain
the same when born Says that one
Jeremiah Taylor< no role >
a Porter
to Mr. Allanson Silk Mercer in St. Clements
Church Yard
is the Father thereof he having had
Carnal knowledge of her Body sometime in January
last but the Particular day she does not now
remember at 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
Jeremiah Taylor< no role >
and no other person did
beget the same and that he is the real & true Father
thereof.
Sworn this 21st. day
of June 1777
before
me
Abrm Baley< no role >
her
Frances [mark] Spencer< no role >
Mark.