St Dionis Backchurch Parish:
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27th August 1707 - 7th September 1778

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Image 29 of 6728th January 1761


FORM of an Affidavit for a married Wo-
man whose Husband is absent, in order to her
2518 Admission into the BRITISH LYING-IN HOS-
PITAL, in Brownlow-Street , Long-Acre .

Jane< no role > the Wife of John Drury< no role > . Upholsterer
now at Rochester
voluntarily maketh Oath, That One was lawfully married to her said Hus-
band, at the Fleet on or about the twelfth
Day of June in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hun-
dred and Fifty Two And that her said Husband has not been absent
from her more than One Week And this Deponent further maketh
Oath, That her said Husband's last legal Settlement (as the hath been in-
formed by him, and verily believed is in the Parish of Saint Mary
at Hill in the City of London and that
the said Settlement was gained by his serving as apprenticeship
of Seven Years to Mr. Perkins Upholsterer in
Fenchurch Street
And further saith, That, when the married as aforesaid, she waw not the Wife
of any other Person, and believes her Husband had not then any other Wife.

Sworn the 18th. Day of Febry
1757 before me }Jane Deucy< no role >
Saunders Welch< no role >

One of his Majesty's Justice of the Peace
for the Country of Middlesex

The above is a true Copy of the Original affidavit
now remaining on the File at the above named
Hospital, examined the 28th. Day of Janry 1761 by
Thos. Yewd< no role > Secretary
to the said Hospital.




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