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This Examinant upon her Corporall oath
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Sayth that She hath lodged in the house of
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about three
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quarters of a yeare and thatBox wife of
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the Said
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is a person of a Servd life and
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conversation and entertains & Suffers Severall Servd
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disorderly persons to lye togeither know
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ingly and that this Examinant hath
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playd at her house as a Comon where
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and that She hath layde with Six Severall
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men in the Said house and that on
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Sunday was Sevennight at Night this
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Examinant comeing to her lodgeing her
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Said Land lady had put a Strange man into
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her Bed and this Examinant refuseing
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to goe to bed to him ye Sd Box wife of ye Said
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the Street and would not Suffer her to come
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in againe that Night; and this Examinant
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further Sayth that ye SdBox wife of John
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used to Send for another woman whose name
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She knows not to play & obleidge persons yt
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Jurat
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18: die Septembris
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Anno Domi 1700
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her
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marke
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