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Taken this 10th Day of May
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1782
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Elizabeth Davis
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saith that the Prisoner
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Catherine Hudson
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now under Examination came to this Informant
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on Tuesday Morning last at her said Chusters House, and dashed
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her if her Name was
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Betty Davis
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, and said she was come from
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Mr Henson meaning are Informant believes a Prisoner in
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Woodstreet
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Compter charged with Coming who wanted to see Informant that heesd
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not be casy Night Day until he sd see her, and begged
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Informt. wod not say any thing to her
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Chaster or Misteys
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, but go
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along with her, Informant replied she could not go then, but wod
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go the next Day of Ten o clock, upon which the Prisoner went
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away That on the Wednesday Morning about Eleven O'clock the
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came again to Informant and asked her if she wod
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go along with her, that Informant replied she could not go
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then as her charter & Misters were from home that the Prisoner
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then asked Informant That she meant to do, whether she wod
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appear against Mr Stenson or not and that it wod be worse for her if he
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did; Informant further south that the Prisoner
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Mary Carron
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and a
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Joseph Morris
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now also under Examination, came to the
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House of Informant said Master last Night; And the Risd
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asked her if her Name was Davis, that
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Informant replied it was, and the Prisoner then said she
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was come there for a Supper, that Informant might go with
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her to Mr Stenson and that she had heard Mr Gates had
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offered Informant Twenty Pounds to Say some Particular
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Words against Stenson (meaning as Informant believes) the
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said Person charged with Coming and against where Informant
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had been Examined as a Witness, but that Mr
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Stenson wod
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make it better than Forty Pounds to her, of the Informant
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wod. but go to him, that Informant Sayed she could not go
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then but wod go the next Morning at Ten o Clock, that the
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sd. last Prisoner repeated her request, and the Prisoner
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Joseph Morris
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also desired Informant to go and that
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