Middlesex ss
Ann Gostello< no role >
Singlewoman
maketh oath
That about Thirty years ago She was duly bound apprentice
by
the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Saint Andrews Wardrobe in the City of London to one
Ralph
Willshire< no role >
of
Swan Alley
in Whitecross Street
in the Parish
of Saint Luke
in the County of Middlesex
Sacking Bottom
maker
and Continued with him as his Apprentice in the said
Parish for about the Space of twelve months as She this Depont
now best remembers & then on Account of illusage which
She received from her said Master She left him & went and
lived with her Father in the
Borough of Southwarke
in the
County of Surry
and did not afterwards return back to her
said Master That She this Deponent on or about the
Third day of July 1769
was removed by a Pass order from
the
Hamlet of Mile End old Town
in the said County of Middlesex
to the said Parish of Saint Luke
as being the Place of her
last legal Settlement & received into the Workhouse
there and
had relief allowed her and no objection or appeal was ever
made or taken to Such order of Removal to her knowledge
or belief That She this Deponent Since her being bound apprentice
as aforesaid never lived as a hired Servant for a year or ever
rented a house of the yearly Rent of Ten pounds or ever
paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes or was ever married or
ever did any Act to her knowledge or belief to gain a
Subsequent Settlement
Sworn this 16th day
of December 1774
before
Burf Camper< no role >
Jno Sherwood< no role >
The Mark of
Ann [mark] Gostello< no role >