| Examination Text | The Examination of Elizabeth Hillman in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken upon oath this 16th Day of July 1765. This Examinant on her said that she is about 31 years of age, that she never was married, that she was on the eighth day of June last delivered at the workhouse aforesaid of a Male bastard child (since christened Henry) yet living become chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that John Henry Brown, a Taylor at Mr Simpson's, a Taylor in Street leading out of Mount Street into Grosvenor Square had carnal knowledge of her body in the month of August last in and upon a bed in a room up two pair of stairs backwards a house of Mr Hoffman's, a Victualler at the sign of the Cock and Bottle in Bedfordbury in the Parish aforesaid and several times afterwards at the same place at which or one of which times he the said John Henry Brown did beget on her body the said Male bastard child, and that he the said John Henry Brown is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year abovesaid before Peter Planck, Thomas Balack. |
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