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<p n="145"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1695<lb></lb>
March 28.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Informacon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15006_n145-1">Mary<lb></lb>
Button</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n145-1" type="surname" value="Button"></interp>
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taken upon Oath<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15006_date24">28th day of March 1695</rs>
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<p n="146">As followeth!</p>
<p n="147">That about Lady day was two years one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15006_n147-1">Samuel<lb></lb>
Kingstone</rs>
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a person who lived incontinently<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15006_n147-2">Mary Read</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n147-2" type="given" value="Mary"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n147-2" type="surname" value="Read"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n147-2" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
came to her house and<lb></lb>
took lodgings therein where ye said Kingstone<lb></lb>
and Read lived together as man and wife<lb></lb>
for ye space of half a year, and ye departed<lb></lb>
and about Lady day last was twelve moneth<lb></lb>
the said Kingstone and Read came again<lb></lb>
to this informant house and there lodged<lb></lb>
together again as man and wife and so<lb></lb>
continued till the 18th<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
December last<lb></lb>
or thereabout in which time this Informant very me<lb></lb>
observeing the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15006_n147-3">Mary Read</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n147-3" type="given" value="Mary"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n147-3" type="surname" value="Read"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n147-3" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
did verily<lb></lb>
beleive she was with Child and yt when<lb></lb>
she left ye said lodging she apprehended<lb></lb>
She might be near ye time of her delvidy.<lb></lb>
in some little time after about three weeks<lb></lb>
or a moneth ago a dead new born Child<lb></lb>
was found in a Coffin at the Sign of the<lb></lb>
fifteen Crowns in Lambeth, as this Informt:<lb></lb>
was told by the Church Wardens of ye said<lb></lb>
Parish who came to Search of in her Sd<lb></lb>
house;(<del>this informant was told yt after ye said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15006_n147-4">Mary Read</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n147-4" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
last left<obscured></obscured>
She to<lb></lb>
this is all of this Informant which<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
hereof</del>
) And further this Informant Saith<lb></lb>
not.</p>
<p n="148">The mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15006_n148-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Button</rs>
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</p>
<p n="149">Jurat coram me.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15006_n149-1">Tho Lane</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15006_n149-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Majr.</p>
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