The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London by Paula Humfrey

Author:Paula Humfrey [Humfrey, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138376199
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

The deposition of Elizabeth Colbeck, of the parish of St James's Westminster, Middlesex; aged 34 years.

That she this deponent is gentlewoman to the Lady Countess Carey Peterborough, and about the month of March last was three or four years she, this deponent, at the desire of the Countess of Inchequin did take lodgings at the house of Mrs Edwards at College Street, Westminster, on purpose and design to inquire and inform herself on behalf of the Lady Inchequin what she could find out of the marriage betwixt Mrs Hannah Pike and the Lord Howard of Escrick, and this deponent did accordingly lodge there about a fortnight, and in the said time this deponent did observe there were two children and she, this deponent, asked Mrs Edwards whose children they were, and Mrs Edwards told this deponent that the eldest child was named Pike and was her daughter’s child by her former husband Mr Pike, and the youngest child was named Howard and her Christian name, Charlotte Howard, and that Charlotte Howard was her granddaughter by one Mr Howard, and did not at the time discover the quality of the said Howard, but did declare that her daughter Mrs Pike and Mr Howard were at the same time abroad in travel beyond the seas, and that there was some dispute about the marriage betwixt her daughter and her son, Mr Howard, and a gentleman of quality in town.

That she this deponent went from one Mr West, a counselor’s house, when she went to Mrs Edwards’ house as predeposed, and did lodge there in which time one Mrs Geery, an embroiderer, came to offer her work to Mrs West and in this deponent’s presence and Mrs West’s, Mrs West proposing to recommend Mrs Geery by this deponent’s means to Lady Inchequin, whom Mrs West then said was about being married to the Lord Howard of Escrick, and Mrs Geery then said that was impossible for the Lord Escrick is married to a relation of thine and she hath several children by him and is now maintained by the Lord Howard, her firstborn’s father, upon which this deponent and Mrs Ivers asked Mrs Geery who her relation was, and she then said her name was Mrs Hannah Pike, the daughter of Mrs Edwards who lived in College Street, Westminster. And this deponent farther sayeth that she being very conversant and familiar with Lady Inchequin, she did observe Lord Charles Howard to be open with her and saw some [ms torn] freedoms which the Lady Inchequin showed to him more than other gentlemen, as this deponent apprehended, and about three weeks before the month of August, 1694, this deponent best remembers the Countess of Inchequin told this deponent that she had several honourable offers made to her by Charles, Lord Howard, in the way of marriage and that she very well liked him and the proposals he made and that she was resolved to marry him.

That for these two years last past she hath

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