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<p n="759"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London ss<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15003_date118">1692<lb></lb>
Nov 21</rs>
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The Informacon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n759-1">Ann Starmore</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15003_occ289">wife</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n759-2">Thomas Starmore</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15003_geo413">St.<lb></lb>
Gregories</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15003_occ290">Turner</rs>
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taken upon oath<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15003_occ291">Sr</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n759-3">William Turner</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15003_occ292">Knt</rs>
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. and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15003_occ293">Aldrman</rs>
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of London this 21th. day of November Anno<lb></lb>
Dm 1692</p>
<p n="760">Who sayeth That soone after<del>Elizabeth</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n760-2">Katherine Austen</rs>
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had<lb></lb>
parted with her husband she saw her at Mr Simpkins<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15003_geo414">little Carter lane</rs>
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, and prsently she told this examint. that<lb></lb>
her husband had poysoned her, with A hott pott, at A Cooks<lb></lb>
Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15003_geo415">St. Martins Le Grand</rs>
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, where they had Ale and<lb></lb>
Brandy heated and she the said Elizabeth went for<lb></lb>
Sugar and an Egg to mix with it, and when it was mixt<lb></lb>
it was divided in two parts & she carryed downe one<lb></lb>
part to make hott againe and when she had brought it up and<lb></lb>
went to mixt it with the other<del>with about</del>
her said<lb></lb>
husband took that she had heated a second time and<lb></lb>
told her he would drink that, because it was hot, and<lb></lb>
she should drink the other because it was coole<lb></lb>
enough for her to drink or words to that effect, And<lb></lb>
further told her, that when she had drank allmost<lb></lb>
all the drink off she saw something white at the<lb></lb>
bottome & she after her husband what it was, and he<lb></lb>
told her he did not know unles it was the white of an<lb></lb>
Egg and then she told him he loved the white of an<lb></lb>
Egg and bid him drink it, and he bidd her drink it up<lb></lb>
it would doe her good, and she told him no she would<lb></lb>
drink no more it had made her already sick, with that she<lb></lb>
put her finger to the bottome of the pott and found<lb></lb>
it was white powder and he would have her againe<lb></lb>
drink it, but she Refuseing, he said it should stand<lb></lb>
for the boy, And at last when he saw she would not<lb></lb>
drink it, he shook it round in ye pott & flung it away<lb></lb>
then she took up the pott againe and fell the white<lb></lb>
powder at the bottome, and then told him he had<lb></lb>
poysoned her, And he told her he had fill'd a pipe of<lb></lb>
Tobaccoe but would not stay to smoke it but would goe<lb></lb>
with her to Mr Lee in Carter lane and drink A Pott<lb></lb>
of Ale and soe see her home, and see they went away<lb></lb>
and in Blow bladder Street she was very Sick and vomited<lb></lb>
and told him that he had poysoned her whereupon he<lb></lb>
told</p>
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