St Martin's Settlement Exams:
St Martin in the Fields Pauper Examinations, 1725-1793
14th November 1737
| Unique Project ID | 2554 |
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| Examination Text | William Lawson aged about fifty Six years lodging at one Laycocks in Cross Alley in Hartshorn Lane where he hath lodged ever since April last Saith he was marryed to Barbara his wife at the Goat Tavern by Black ffryar and by a ffleet parson in the year 1727 and by whom he hath one Daughter living named Barbara aged about about twenty months born at Bromley in Kent he this Examinant then keeping house there of seven pounds a year Rent but paid no Taxe Saith that he was born in Scotland and came thence in the year1726 and took a Shop part of the House of one Mr Mills in Henrietta Street in Covent Garden wherein he followed the Business of a Barber and Perukemaker and that the Shop fronted the Street and had Door Way in the middle and that there was no Inlet or Communication with any Part of the said House that he paid thirteen pounds by the year Rent and at the same time paid for a Room wherein he lodged at nights in another House two doors beyond his said Ship five pounds a year both which he rented above a year and thence removed to a House next the Cross Keys Tavern in the said Street and there took a Shop and a Room one pair of Stairs at the year Rent of ffourteen pounds kept the same about a year that the House was an Alehouse and two Shops seperated by a Common Passage into which the doors of both Shops opened were fronting the Street one of which Shops was rented by him this Examinant the other by a Glazier that from thence he removed to New Street and took a Shop and a Room up two pair of Stairs part of the House of one Mr Martin the Corner of Bedford Bury paid twelve pounds by the Year that there were also two Shops in front in the said last mentioned House one belonging to this Examinant and the other to Mr Martin that they were divided by a common Passage and the doors of both Shops opened therein that he also kept that Shop about a year and thence removed into St Martin's Lane opposite Slaughters Coffeehouse and there took a Shop and a Room two pair of Stairs and paid ten pounds by the year Rent the door of which Shop opened into the Common Entry that kept that a year and from thence removed into Long Acre and there took a Shop and a Room behind part of the House of one Mr Huntingford a Baker which house was let in Tenements and that there was a Passage from the Street for the other Lodgers to go to and from their Apartments and that his said Shop had no other door than that which opened into the said Passage that there was a Door from the Shop into the Room behind it and also a Door from the said Room to go into the Common Passage but that he doth not remember to have made any use thereof that the Necessary House was in the Yard and that he had the use of the yard and Necessary house to which he went through the passage in Common with the other Tenemts that he paid twelve pounds twelve shilings by the Year Rent but no Taxes kept it about a year and from thence removed over the Way opposite the Swan Tavern and there took a Shop and a Parlour behind it part of the House of Mr Samuel Rousset at the yearly Rent of twelve pounds which he kept two years that there was an Entry from the Street for the Lodgers into which his Shop Door and Parlour door both opened and that there was no other Way of Entrance into either of the said two Rooms than from the Entry into each of them left that in the year 1733 and never paid ten pounds by the Year or any Parish Taxes since |
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| Manuscript Reference | F5029 |
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| Forename | William |
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| Surname |
Lawson< no role >
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| Male OR Female | male |
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| Age | 56 |
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| Date of Examination | 14/11/1737 |
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| Page Number | 230 |
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| Signed OR Marked | unsigned/unmarked
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