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<p n="53"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n53-1">John Davies</rs>
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maketh oath That divers years<lb></lb>
ago he was hired & lived as a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10317_occ40">hired Servant</rs>
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by the year by & with one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n53-2">Thomas Edmunds</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo56"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo57">Vere Street</rs>
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near Clare Market in the<lb></lb>
Parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Sd County <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10317_occ41">Soap Boiler and<lb></lb>
Tallow Chandler</rs>
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& Continued in Such Service for the Space of a<lb></lb>
year & upwards by means thereof gained a legal Settlement<lb></lb>
there That he has not Since lived as a hired Servant for a year<lb></lb>
nor rented a house of Ten pounds a year or upwards or Servd<lb></lb>
any parish office or paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes <lb></lb>
or done any Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement.</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10317_date20">7th day<lb></lb>
of october 1776</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n54-2">Jasper Clarkes</rs>
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</hi>
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<p n="55">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n55-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Davies</rs>
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<p n="56"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n56-1">Elizabeth Towns</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10317_occ42">widow</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n56-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Towns</rs>
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deced maketh oath that her late husband has informed her<lb></lb>
& which She believes to be true that he was born in <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo58"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo59">Swan Alley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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in the Sd County<lb></lb>
& that to her knowledge or belief he never lived as a hired Servant<lb></lb>
for a year nor was ever bound Apprentice nor ever rented a<lb></lb>
house of Ten pounds a year or upwards nor ever Served any<lb></lb>
Parish office or paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes nor ever<lb></lb>
did any Act to gain a Settlement for himself nor hath She this<lb></lb>
Depont Since his death done any Act to gain a Settlement for herself <lb></lb>
& this Depont Can give no Account respecting the Settlement of<lb></lb>
her late husbands Parents Save that She has been informed that his<lb></lb>
Mother was born in the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo60">Sd Parish of St Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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& that She this<lb></lb>
Depont was Married to her late husband abt thirty Years ago at ye <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo61">Fleet</rs>
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<p n="57"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10317_date21">8th of October 1776</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="58">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n58-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Towns</rs>
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