Middx
The Examination of
Alice< no role >
the Wife
of
Gyles
Gardner< no role >
lodging in the
Parish of St. Clemt. Danes
in the County of Middx
taken ye.. 7th- Day of April
1741
Who upon her Oath saith that her Husband
Gyles Gardner< no role >
Served One Year & upwards the latter
Part of his Apprentishipp with one Sr.
John Sidney< no role >
in
the Strand
in the sd. Parish of St. Clement Danes
Watchmaker
And further on her Oath that her said
Husband rented a House in the
Parish of St. Lawrence
in the County of Southampton
of the Yearly Rent of
Six Pounds Six Shillings for the Space of three Years
& paid to the Watch & Minister of the sd- Parish & served
the Office of Surveyer of the Common
there that her
sd. Husband never rented Ten Pounds a Year pd. to the
Poor of any Parish lived with any Person as a Yearly
hired Servt. for the Space of one Year or otherwise
gained a Settlemt- to
[..] her knowledge or Beliefe
yt. her sd. Husband lives now in
the Isle of Wight
Guernsey
& is very Poor & She being left with Two Children (to wit)
Elizth< no role >
- aged abt. Thirteen Yrs- &
Wm< no role >
- aged Four Yrs- is not able
to maintaine herself & them
Sworne the Day & Year
above menconed before} Jas: Gronous< no role >
Alce Gardner< no role >