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<p n="623"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1693 10 July</note>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15004_n623-1">Anne Lamb</rs>
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Pserntr. agt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15004_n623-2">Jonathan Ward</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15004_n623-5">Onesiphorus Lambe</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15004_geo400">Watton</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of Heitfordgent maketh Oath that the presentr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15004_n623-3">Anne Lambe</rs>
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hath bin thro Deponts. wife for near<lb></lb>
nineteen yeares, And in that time hath had seaven<lb></lb>
children by her, and this Depont. saith that wth in these<lb></lb>
face yeares last past the said<del>And</del>
Anne hath Expended<lb></lb>
and Occasioned to a Expended of this Deponts. (through<lb></lb>
her drunkennesse and Debanchery) betweene Three<lb></lb>
& four hundred pounds for which reasons and her<lb></lb>
keeping company with one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15004_n623-4">James Hemmings</rs>
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for halfe<lb></lb>
a yeare last past & selling and disposeing of all this Depnt.<lb></lb>
had intrusted her with for her owne livelyhood and<lb></lb>
childrens &<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
converting ye same for thence of the<lb></lb>
said Hemmings) and her children almost starved<lb></lb>
and eaten up wth. Lise, and the said Anne running<lb></lb>
away from her children to keep company wth. Hemmings<lb></lb>
this Depont. cryed her downe whereupon the sd. Anne<lb></lb>
became soe inveterate yt. she hath often told this Depont.<lb></lb>
to his fase (and to severall of his freinds in his absence)<lb></lb>
that unlesse this Depont. and the abovesaid Ward would find<lb></lb>
her money to supply her and the said Hemmings wants<lb></lb>
that she would sweare both this Depont. and the sd.<lb></lb>
Wards life away altho shee damned her owne Soul<lb></lb>
by soe doeing, And She hath Threatened that the said<lb></lb>
Hemmings should kill this Depont., And this Depont.<lb></lb>
further sayth that the sd. Hemmings hath lately been wth<lb></lb>
severall of this Deponts. Creditors to perswade & prosecute<lb></lb>
this Depont. at law for their debtes And this</p>
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