| Examination Text | Frances Abbott wife of Thomas Abbot of this Parish Labourer maketh oath and saith that John Mank (her brother-in-law who has been dead four years) was by trade Sugar Baker and served his time in Germany and never kept any house rented 10 pounds per ann. paid any parish taxes, that she hath heard him say he was a yearly hired servant to one Mr Menders, a Sugar Baker in Rose Lane in White Chapel whom he there served three years and had 50 pounds per ann. wages diet and lodging [sic], that he quitted that service about 11 years ago and that the said John Mank hath two children by Mary his late wife (who has been dead about three months and to whom he was married at St Bennet Paul's Wharf Church about 13 years ago to wit Mary aged about 12 years, never apprentice, and John aged near 11 years, never apprentice, and that the said Mary Mank about four years ago married one William Black, a who then kept house in Exeter Street in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields and paid 24 pounds per ann. rent for the same near a year and quitted the same about a year ago and did not take any house afterwards and is now gone sea. Sworn [blank]. |
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