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<p n="215"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss.</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10303_n215-1">Isabella Cousins</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10303_occ123">Widow</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10303_n215-2">Stephen Cousins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
deceased maketh Oath that she was lawfully Married<lb></lb>
to her said late Husband at the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10303_geo377">Parish Church of St. John<lb></lb>
Wapping</rs>
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on or about the <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10303_date87">Twenty first Day of August<lb></lb>
1785</rs>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10303_date87" type="date" value="17850821"></interp>
, that her said late Husband has informed her that<lb></lb>
before his Marriage with her & when he was a Single<lb></lb>
Man was hired & lived as a hired <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10303_occ124">Servant</rs>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10303_occ124" type="occupation" value="Servant"></interp>
by the Year<lb></lb>
with Mr. Robinson Victualler who then kept the<lb></lb>
Public House called the<rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10303_geo378"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10303_geo379"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10303_geo380">St. Andrew</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
St. Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at certain yearly Wages & continued in his Service<lb></lb>
under such hiring upwards of Two Years when his<lb></lb>
said Master let the said House to one <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10303_n215-3">Alex. Robinson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who died in the said House, that his Widow some<lb></lb>
time after his Decease Married one <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10303_n215-4">Alexr. Shaw</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And that her said Husband continued to live as a<lb></lb>
hired Servant by the Year in the said House with<lb></lb>
the said Alexr. Robinson his Widow & her second<lb></lb>
Husband Alexr. Shaw about Five Years at certain<lb></lb>
Yearly Wages, that he went from thence & lived as a<lb></lb>
hired Servant by the Year with a Mr. Peak who<lb></lb>
kept<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Wine Vaults at <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10303_geo381">Wapping Wall</rs>
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about Nine<lb></lb>
Months But has not since he quitted the Service of<lb></lb>
Mr. Shaw lived as a hired Servant by the Year<lb></lb>
with any Person for the space of One Year together or<lb></lb>
Rented any House or Lodging of the Yearly Rent or<lb></lb>
Value of Ten Pounds or paid any Poors Rate or Kings <lb></lb>
Tax or done any Act to her Knowledge or Belief to<lb></lb>
gain a Subsequent Settlement, Nor has she since<lb></lb>
her said Husbands Death done any Act to her Knowledge<lb></lb>
or Belief to gain a Settlement in her own right</p>
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Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10303_date88">19th Day of<lb></lb>
March 1796</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> R Davies</hi>
</hi>
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<p n="217">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10303_n217-1">Isabella<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Cousins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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