| Examination Text | Jane Salt aged about 25 years lodging with Mrs How at a house let out in tenements opposite the sign of the White Rose in that part of Rose Street which is in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields upon her oath saith that she is the widow of William Salt who died about nine weeks ago to whom she was married at the Parish Church of St Clement Danes the first Day of February in the year 1767, that she this Examinant hath heard that her said husband was born in the County of Wilts. but the particular part she this Examinant cannot tell, that her said husband never was bound an apprentice kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together to this Examinant's knowledge, that she this Examinant never was bound an apprentice 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, that her Father William Greenhill (who died about five months ago) served seven years apprenticeship to Mr Chilly a Coach Maker near Long Acre in Drury Lane in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields as she this Examinant hath been informed, that her father never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant after the expiration of his said apprenticeship to this Examinant's knowledge, that she this Examinant hath one child living by her said husband to wit Jane aged about five months now with this Examinant. Sworn the 17th Day of May 1768 before Peter Planck. |
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