St Clement Danes Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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16th April 1785 - 12th January 1787

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Image 184 of 38624th December 1785


Saint Clement Danes Decr- 24th
1785

Middlesex ss

Thomas Pritchard< no role > aged seventy two Years
a thereabouts upon his Oath saith, that he never
rented any House or Tenement of the Yearly Value
of ten Pounds, paid Taxes, lived for one Year as
an hired Servant, served as an Apprentice, or did
any Act, Matter or thing whereby to gain any Settlement
in his own Right That his father Robert Pritchard< no role >
in his Lifetime rented and lived in a House and
Long Lane in the Parish of Saint Bartholomew
the Great in the City of London and lived there
for about five Years, that his Father bought
the Lease of the said House, and [..]
it up himself, that after quitting the same
House his said Father in his life time never did
any Act whereby to this Examinants Knowledge
Information or belief she gained any subsequent
settlement that this Examinant lived
with his father as part of his family in Long
Lane , aforesaid has received a Weekly allowance
from the said Parish of Saint Bartholomew
the Great in the City of London aforesaid
for sometime then he was out of Work
and that he is now poor and cannot
get Employment to maintain himself
and




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