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of London this 21th. day of November Anno
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Dm 1692
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Who sayeth That soone after
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Elizabeth
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Katherine Austen
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had
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parted with her husband she saw her at Mr Simpkins
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, and prsently she told this examint. that
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her husband had poysoned her, with A hott pott, at A Cooks
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Shop in
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, where they had Ale and
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Brandy heated and she the said Elizabeth went for
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Sugar and an Egg to mix with it, and when it was mixt
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it was divided in two parts & she carryed downe one
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part to make hott againe and when she had brought it up and
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went to mixt it with the other
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her said
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husband took that she had heated a second time and
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told her he would drink that, because it was hot, and
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she should drink the other because it was coole
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enough for her to drink or words to that effect, And
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further told her, that when she had drank allmost
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all the drink off she saw something white at the
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bottome & she after her husband what it was, and he
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told her he did not know unles it was the white of an
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Egg and then she told him he loved the white of an
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Egg and bid him drink it, and he bidd her drink it up
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it would doe her good, and she told him no she would
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drink no more it had made her already sick, with that she
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put her finger to the bottome of the pott and found
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it was white powder and he would have her againe
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drink it, but she Refuseing, he said it should stand
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for the boy, And at last when he saw she would not
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drink it, he shook it round in ye pott & flung it away
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then she took up the pott againe and fell the white
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powder at the bottome, and then told him he had
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poysoned her, And he told her he had fill'd a pipe of
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Tobaccoe but would not stay to smoke it but would goe
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with her to Mr Lee in Carter lane and drink A Pott
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of Ale and soe see her home, and see they went away
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and in Blow bladder Street she was very Sick and vomited
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and told him that he had poysoned her whereupon he
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told
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