Middlesex ss.

Edward Smith< no role > Maketh Oath that on
Michaelmas Day in the Year One Thousand
Seven Hundred & Fifty three he was hired
and lived as a hired Servant by the Year
with George Loton< no role > of the Parish of
Kensington in the County of Middlesex
Gardener at the Yearly Wages of Six
Guineas and continued in his Service
under such hiring until Michaelmas
Day following that he has not Since
he quitted his Service lived as a hired
Servant by the Year with any other
Person in any Parish or Place for the
Space of One Year together or Rented any
House or Lodging of the Yearly Rent or
Value of Ten Pounds or Paid any Poors
Rate or Kings Tax or done any Act to
his Knowledge or Belief to gain a
Subsequent Settlement that he has a
Wife named Eleanor to< no role > whom he was
Lawfully Married at the Parish Church
of Finchley in the said County about
Eighteen Years ago-

his
Edward [mark] Smith< no role >
Mark