| Examination Text | The Examination of Ann Tomlinson in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields taken upon oath this 30th Day of October 1765. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is about 36 years of age and is the widow of George Tomlinson (who died 14 years ago), that she cannot tell anything of her said husband's place of settlement, that she was a yearly hired servant to Mr Harwick, a Victualler at the sign of the Cock and Bottle in Bedfordbury in the Parish aforesaid for the space of 19 months at the yearly wages of 4 pounds and 10 shillings diet and lodging, quitted the same before her intermarriage to her said husband, 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 Tully Smith, a Porter lodging at the late Mr Osborne's in Phenix Alley had carnal knowledge of her body the 21st Day of April last in and upon a bed in the Garrett in the said house in Phenix Alley and several times afterwards in the same place at which or one of which times he the said Tully Smith did beget her with child or children she now goeth with and is pregnant off, and that he the said Tully Smith is the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the 30th Day of October 1765 before Peter Planck. |
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