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one day
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last Week and lived six days there as Dept.
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thinks, her Death happening or Monday
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Night the fourteenth Instant, Says that the
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a Blow from her Husband about Eight Weeks before, and
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that she was well before she received that Blow
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That he struck her with his Knee, either upon
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her Breast or side (Dept. is not sure which
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in the Bed until the last time that Dept.
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said her, when she could not bear to lye do
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more Liquor, and that she endeavoured
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forcing his way out she reced the Blow
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abovementioned, but did not say that it
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