Middlesex ss.

Charlotte Blee< no role > the Wife of Francis Blee< no role >
now on a Voyage to the South Seas in the Ship
called the Speedy maketh Oath that she was
lawfully Married to her said Husband at
the Parish Church of Lymington in Hampshire
some time in the Month of May One Thousand
Seven Hundred & Eighty Two that her said
Husband has informed her that he was
duly bound Apprentice by Indenture for
Seven Years to Thomas Bissington< no role > of the
Parish of Croydon in the County of Surry
Butcher & Served the whole of his said
Apprenticeship with his said Master there
that her said Husband has not since his
Apprenticeship, 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 her knowledge or Belief to
gain a Subsequent Settlement that she
has Three Children, Namely Elizabeth < no role > aged
about Eleven Years Edward < no role > aged about
Nine Years and Ann < no role > aged about Three
Months, the lawful issue by her said Husband
And that her said Husband's Father is now
in the Workhouse of the said Parish of
Croydon And further Smith that being Poor
& not able to provide for herself & Three
Children, she has been obliged to apply to
the Overseers of the poor of the Parish of St.
Botolph without Aldgate Middx for Relief &
has been relieved by them accordingly

Sworn this Day of
July 1796 before}

her
Charlotte [mark] Blee< no role >
Mark