| Examination Text | The Examination of Mary Orpwood in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields passed from the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the liberty of Westminster taken upon oath this 14th Day of October in the year of our Lord 1765. This Examinant on her oath saith that she never was bound an apprentice, that she was a yearly hired servant to Mr North, a Victualler the sign of the Three Butchers in Hungerford Market in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid for the space of 13 months at the yearly wages of 4 pounds diet and lodging, quitted the same about three years ago, that she never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor hath been a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together since, And this Examinant on her voluntary oath further saith that she is now Great 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 St Martin in the Fields, and that Thomas Martin, Housekeeper at the corner of Princes Court in Hedge Lane had carnal knowledge of her body in the month of May last in and upon a bed in a room forwards up two pair of stairs in the house the corner of Princes Court aforesaid at which time he the said Thomas Martin did beget her with child or children she now goeth with is pregnant of, and that he the said Thomas Martin is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year abovesaid before Thomas Kynaston. |
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