St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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15th December 1777 - February 1779

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Image 53 of 13018th July 1778


Middlesex ss}

Mary Hall< no role > the wife of William Hall< no role > of the
Parish of Saint Martin in the Town of Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Innkeeper maketh oath that She well
knows one Sarah Shore< no role > Who is now resident in the Work
house belonging to the Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate
in the County of Middlesex and at present disored in her Mind
That about Three Years ago the Said Sarah Shore< no role > was hired
& lived

Middlesex ss}

Elizabeth Jones< no role > the widow of John Jones< no role >
deced maketh oath That divers Years ago her said late husband
rented a house in Foul Lane in the Parish of St Saviour
in Southwarke in the County of Surry & was Charged to
and paid Kings Taxes for the same & in Which Parish her
Said husband before her Marriage with him was hired &
lived as ahired servant by the year at Certain Wages by &
with one Mr Wisdom & Continued there in Such Service
for about the Space of five years & by the Means aforesaid
gained a legal Settlement there & did not afterwards to her
knowledge or belief rent a house of Ten pounds a year
or upwards elsewhere or Serve any Parish office or
pay any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes or do any Act to gain
a Subsequent Settlement That She was lawfully married
to her Sd husband & Since his death hath not done any
Act to gain a Settlement for herself


Sworn this 18 day
of July 1778 before
P. Rowlands Jasper Clarkey< no role >

The Mark of
Elizabeth [mark] Jones< no role >




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