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<p n="343"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15003_date53">1692<lb></lb>
27 August</rs>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n343-1">Ann Gunn</rs>
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taken this 27th. day of August<lb></lb>
1692. who lives at a shooemakers neer <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15003_geo171">St Clements Church</rs>
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over<lb></lb>
agt <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15003_geo172">Essex Streete</rs>
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<p n="344"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <del>there may be some<lb></lb>
suspitious (because ye<lb></lb>
said Milward had<lb></lb>
Crooked leggs.)</del>
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The examinant being asked whether or noe she was with one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n344-1">Margarett<lb></lb>
Edwards</rs>
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to see the execution of Mr Harrison for the Murder of Dr Clenche<lb></lb>
saith that she was, & further saith that she doth not remember that she said to,<lb></lb>
or in discourse with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n344-2">Margaret Edwards</rs>
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if some had their deserts<lb></lb>
they would be there as well as he meaning the said Mr Harrison who was<lb></lb>
then there ready to be executed, or laughed or said there is somebody doth<lb></lb>
laugh in his Sleeke now, And she saith that she well remembereth that a<lb></lb>
woman a Stranger to this depont, passeing by in the Croude about the time<lb></lb>
of the execution of the said Mr Harrison asked another Woman whither the said Mr Harrison<lb></lb>
had crooked leggs and she said to the said Mrs Edwards doe you heare<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<del>haveing heard that there was a discourse as through<obscured></obscured>
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there may be some suspition, which words she this depont then uttered because she had heard it reported that<lb></lb>
there was a suspitition that Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n344-3">Francis Milward</rs>
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was concerned in the<lb></lb>
murder of the said Dr Clenche, & she saith that she did knowe the said<lb></lb>
Mr Milward had crooked Leggs And this depont further saith that after<lb></lb>
the murder of the said Dr Clenche & before the execucon of the said<lb></lb>
Mr Harrison, she (haveing taken notice that the said Mrs Edwards had said<lb></lb>
that she knewe something of the said Mr Milward, done in the City & one<lb></lb>
Mrs Wheeler being some time after at this deponts lodgeings said that<lb></lb>
it was reported that the said Mr Milward was concerned in the Murder<lb></lb>
of the said Dr Clenche, & there upon she this depont afterwards asked the<lb></lb>
said Mrs Edwards if that was the thinge or secreet she meant when<lb></lb>
she said that she knewe something concerning the said Mr Milward done<lb></lb>
in the City. And she further saith that since the Comitment of Mr Cole<lb></lb>
she was before the Lord Cheife Justice Holt, and that about a moneth since<lb></lb>
she sawe Mr Harper a Chyrungeon & told him that Mrs Milward had<lb></lb>
reported that her husband & the said Mr Cole and Mr Harper were<lb></lb>
concerned in the murder of Dr Clenche, who replied to this deponent<lb></lb>
that he was innocent of it and that he would surrender himselfe to<lb></lb>
my Lord Cheife Justice at his returne from the Circuit, & that he would<lb></lb>
then take some of his friends there with him to give some good account of<lb></lb>
him or used words to that effect And she saith that a person a<lb></lb>
Stranger to this depont whose name is Heaselton (at this depont is<lb></lb>
informed) came to her & desired of this deponent to knowe where the<lb></lb>
said Mrs Milward lodged & when she did see the said Mrs Milward<lb></lb>
& named to this depont a person of Grayes Inne whom he said was<lb></lb>
Mr Harrisons friend whom he said would prosecute the said<lb></lb>
Mr Cole for the Murder of the said Dr Clenche And she further<lb></lb>
saith that she doth knowe the said Mr Cole & Mr Harper and that she</p>
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