the examination of Mary Rayner taken upon oath this 1.11.1757 touching her last legal place of settlement who deposeth and saith that she was born in the parish of Earls Colne and afterwards let herself for a year to Edw Lokin esq of Messing at the wages of 3li and served him five years and further saith she hath never done any act since to gain a settlement elsewhere sworn before Robt Tweed and Rand Ekins Mary Rayner