| Examination Text | Stephen Clark aged 67 years removed by an order of two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace from the Parish of St Olave Southwark in the County of Surry to the Parish of St Martin in the Fields in the County of Middlesex upon his oath saith that he was (by the Officers of the Parish of St Anne within the liberty of Westminster) bound an apprentice by an indenture for seven years to Stephen Scott a Cordwainer in Thomas's Street in the Parish of St Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex and there served his said master for the space of one year and an half, and then his said Master removed into St Clement's Lane in the Parish of St Clement Danes and this Examinant along with him, and there he served his said Master for the space of four years, and then his said Master removed to that corner of Exeter Street which is in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and this Examinant along with him, and there served his said master for the space of one year and an half the remainder of the said term of seven years which expired about 46 years ago, that he this Examinant hath not kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor been a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together since the expiration of his said apprenticeship. Sworn the third Day of June 1782 before William Hyde. |
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