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<p n="68"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
Westr.}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50582_n68-1">John Mathews</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a Rogne & Vagabond being found Wandring<lb></lb>
and begging in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50582_geo39">St Ann</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the said City & liberty taken before me<lb></lb>
one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50582_occ20">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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for the said County City & Liberty</p>
<p n="69">This Examt. being on Oath said That he is a<lb></lb>
Native of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50582_geo40">Ireland</rs>
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& came from thence about<lb></lb>
twenty Seven Years ago and saith that above<lb></lb>
two or three Months after his County into<lb></lb>
England he was hired to & lived with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50582_n69-1">Robt.<lb></lb>
Now</rs>
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gent (now Lord Viscount<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Yearly servt. at his County house called<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50582_geo41">Goswell hall</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50582_geo42">Hasted</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50582_geo43">County of Essex</rs>
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at the<obscured></obscured>
Wages of fifteen<lb></lb>
pounds P Ann & continued to live with heirs<lb></lb>
for seven Years & was discharged at the sd.<lb></lb>
House And this Examt farther saith that<lb></lb>
he never rented any home Landa or Tened<lb></lb>
or ever lived a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50582_occ21">hired servt</rs>
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. (<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
since he<lb></lb>
discharged from Lord Clares as afsd. or ever<lb></lb>
gained any Subsequent Settlement<lb></lb>
to the best of his knowledge or belief</p>
<p n="70">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50582_n70-1">John Mathew</rs>
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,</p>
<p n="71">Sworn the 9th day of<lb></lb>
April 1768 before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50582_n71-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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