Westmr-
to wit
Sophia O' Neal< no role >
Aged about Nineteen years on her Oath
says she never was Married Rented house paid Taxes or lived
a hired Yearly Servant for one Year Says her Father
Francis
O' Neal< no role >
Rented and lived in a house in
the Strand
Opposite
Southampton Street
in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in
the Liberty of Westmr
- for ten years and upwards at the
Yearly Rent of £53 hath quitted the same about twelve Years
ago and hath not since he quitted the same ever gained any
other subseqt- Settlement neither hath this Examinant since
her said Fathers Death 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 she being poor and unable to
maintain the same when born Says that
John Hust< no role >
als
Hurst< no role >
a Marshalsea
Court Officer
who keeps a house in
Cross Lane
Seven Dials
is the Father thereof he having
had carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime in the Month
of June 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
John Hust< no role >
als
Hurst< no role >
and
no other person did beget the same and that he is the real
and true Father thereof
Sworn this 9th- Day
of Decr- 1777
before
R Butler
her
Sophia [mark] O' Neal< no role >
Mark
No- 2
Clements Lane