| Examination Text | The Examination of Catherine Kingston in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields passed as a vagrant from the Parish of St Matthew in Friday Street London taken this 29th day of May in the year of our Lord 1773. This Examinant on her oath saith that she is 73 years of age, that she is the widow of John Kingston (who died about 16 years ago), that since the death of her said husband she this Examinant lived in and rented an house in Orange Street in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of 12 years at the yearly rent of 48 pounds besides taxes, quitted the same two years and upwards [sic], that she 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. Sworn the day and year above written before [blank]. |
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