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27 August
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The Examination of
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1692. who lives at a shooemakers neer
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there may be some
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suspitious (because ye
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said Milward had
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The examinant being asked whether or noe she was with one
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to see the execution of Mr Harrison for the Murder of Dr Clenche
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saith that she was, & further saith that she doth not remember that she said to,
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or in discourse with the said
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if some had their deserts
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they would be there as well as he meaning the said Mr Harrison who was
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then there ready to be executed, or laughed or said there is somebody doth
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laugh in his Sleeke now, And she saith that she well remembereth that a
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woman a Stranger to this depont, passeing by in the Croude about the time
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of the execution of the said Mr Harrison asked another Woman whither the said Mr Harrison
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had crooked leggs and she said to the said Mrs Edwards doe you heare
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haveing heard that there was a discourse as through
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there may be some suspition, which words she this depont then uttered because she had heard it reported that
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there was a suspitition that Mr
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was concerned in the
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murder of the said Dr Clenche, & she saith that she did knowe the said
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Mr Milward had crooked Leggs And this depont further saith that after
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the murder of the said Dr Clenche & before the execucon of the said
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Mr Harrison, she (haveing taken notice that the said Mrs Edwards had said
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that she knewe something of the said Mr Milward, done in the City & one
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Mrs Wheeler being some time after at this deponts lodgeings said that
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it was reported that the said Mr Milward was concerned in the Murder
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of the said Dr Clenche, & there upon she this depont afterwards asked the
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said Mrs Edwards if that was the thinge or secreet she meant when
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she said that she knewe something concerning the said Mr Milward done
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in the City. And she further saith that since the Comitment of Mr Cole
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she was before the Lord Cheife Justice Holt, and that about a moneth since
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she sawe Mr Harper a Chyrungeon & told him that Mrs Milward had
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reported that her husband & the said Mr Cole and Mr Harper were
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concerned in the murder of Dr Clenche, who replied to this deponent
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that he was innocent of it and that he would surrender himselfe to
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my Lord Cheife Justice at his returne from the Circuit, & that he would
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then take some of his friends there with him to give some good account of
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him or used words to that effect And she saith that a person a
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Stranger to this depont whose name is Heaselton (at this depont is
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informed) came to her & desired of this deponent to knowe where the
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said Mrs Milward lodged & when she did see the said Mrs Milward
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& named to this depont a person of Grayes Inne whom he said was
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Mr Harrisons friend whom he said would prosecute the said
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Mr Cole for the Murder of the said Dr Clenche And she further
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saith that she doth knowe the said Mr Cole & Mr Harper and that she
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