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Indicted for Felony in
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Stealing goods the Property
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Elizabeth Arther
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Marketh Oath That on Wednesday the third day of
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of John
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Fristin the prosecutor in this Cause was delivered
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of a Female Child And this Dept. farther maketh
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Oath that the said Eleanor Fristin since the time
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of her delivery hath been & still continues to be
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very weak & unable to go out or walk about her
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room by reason of a great swelling is one of her
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leggs Occasioned by its having beeng broak about four
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months ago And this Dept. farther marketh Oaths
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that the said Eleanor Fristin is nor so weak & Lame
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that it would greatly endanger her health if not
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her life to Attend this Honble Court to give her
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Evidence against the said
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Jane Shaw
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And this
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Dept. farther maketh Oath that the said Eleanor
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Fristin is a very material witness against the said Jane
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Shaw and without whose testimony the said John
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Fristin cannot safely proceed to try the said Jane
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Shaw for the said Felony as this Dept. has been
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her
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