London ss
1692
21 Nov

The Informacon of Sarah Oates< no role > taken upon
Oath before me this 21th day of November
Anno Dm 1692.

Who sayeth That she was with Katherine< no role > wife of
Thomas Austin< no role > the day before she dyed and asking
her how she came by her illness she told her that her
husband had poysoned her with A hot pott at A
Cookes Shop in St. Martin Le Grand , that when the
Ale, branady, Egg, and Sugar, were mixt together and he divided
in two potts the saidElizabethKatherine went downe and heated
one part of the drink and comeing up againe thinking
to mixt them againe her said husband took that which
she had heated againe and told her that he would drink that
because he loved it hott and she should drink the other
and when she had drank it allmost off she perceived
something white at the bottome, And askt her
husband what it was And he told her he knew not
unles it was the white of the Egg, And then she said
doe you drink it, and he said noe doe you drink it, it will
doe you good, noe she reply'd the very thoughts of it
makes me sick, and when she would not drink it, he
said the boy should have it, and after he saw she would
not drink it he shock it in the pott and shing it away
and then he payd the Great, and away they went, And
goeing up [..] St. Martins in Blow bladder Street she sell Sick &
vomiting she told him that he had poysoned her and he
there left her upon prtence of goeing to one Tho: Poole< no role >
to be his security And afterwards he never come to her
And dureing the time of her sickness she allwayes
charged him with poysoning her and being the cause
of her death, and desired that he might be taken And
the said Katherine did dureing her sicknes charge
her said husband with endeavoring to poyson her
before when they drank man.

Capt & Cogn die & Anno
supredics coram me
Wm Turner< no role >

the marke [mark] of
Sarah Oates< no role >