Reference
QSR1731/86
Title
Examination of Peter Jones, apprehended in the parish of Knotting for begging and wandering.
Date free text
30 April 1731
Production date
From: 1731 To: 1731
Scope and Content
He deposes that he was born at Leghorn in Italy, and is now about 37 years of age. That when he was about seven years of age he went from Leghorn to Malaga, where he stayed five years, and then went on board a merchant ship belonging to the port of Leghorn. That he went to Portugal being about 16 years of age. That at Lisbon he was pressed into the English service and went on board an English man-of-war, and has ever since been in the said service, either as a soldier or a mariner on board the said man-of-war and a merchant ship, and that about a fortnight ago he landed at Portsmouth.
Being asked if he could speak Italian, and being required to render some plain and easy English words into the Italian tongue, he declared that he did not understand Italian, except that he knew about 100 Italian words, but cannot tell what they signify in English although he can talk English very well.
Level of description
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