Middlesex ss.

Mary Morris< no role > the Widow of Thomas
Morris< no role > deceased maketh Oath that She
was Married to her said late Husband
at the New Chapel in the Fleet about Forty
Nine Years ago that her said Husband was
born in Scotland & never did any Act to
her knowledge or belief to gain a Settlement
in England, that she this Deponent is about
Seventy five years of Age, that she has heard
her Mother say that her late Father Francis
Pearce< no role > was a Captain in the Army, that
he Rented a House of Seventeen Pounds a year
in Hartshorn Lane in the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields in the City & Liberty of Westminster
& that she this Deponent was born in the
said House, And this Deponent further Saith
that she can give no other Account respecting
the Settlement of her said late Father or her
Mother, that she has never been an
Apprentice or lived as a hired Servant by
the year in any Parish or Place for the
space of One years together or done any
Act to her knowledge or belief to gain
a settlement in her own right (except
her Marriage as aforesd.) and further saith
that being Poor & not able to provide for
herself she has been obliged to apply to the
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of St. Botolph
without Aldgate for Relief & has been Relieved
by them accordingly

her
Mary [mark] Morris< no role >
Mark