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<p n="1415">Barnet Connery and the Articulant exhibited aproves of<obscured></obscured>
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Boots and Shoes in order that the said Barnet Connery might sell the same in such Shop and Might<lb></lb>
thereby be enabled to Carry on some Business towards his own support And this Articulant still continued<lb></lb>
to maintain the said Barnet Connery and to pay the Rent for the said Shop But this Articulant saith<lb></lb>
that immediately after the said Barnet Connery was in possession of the said Shop he began to renew his<lb></lb>
ill treatment of this Articulant and frequently threatened her life.</p>
<p n="1416"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Fourthly</note>
This Articulant upon her Oath saith that on or about the sixthday of September last the said<lb></lb>
Barnet Connery came into this Articulants Shop and demanded to have this Articulants Furniture<lb></lb>
and this Articulant through fear not giving him any Answer the said Barnet Connery with a Knife<lb></lb>
Cut the seat of one of this Articulants Chairs in places and was proceeding to do more Mischief to this<lb></lb>
Articulants Furniture when some of this Articulants Neighbours came into her Ship and the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1414">Barnet</rs>
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Connery thereupon went away.</p>
<p n="1417"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Fifthly</note>
This Articulant upon her Oath further with that on or about the thirteenth day of August last<lb></lb>
the said Barnet Connery came again to this Articulants Shop and insisted upon living with this Articulant<lb></lb>
and on this Articulant's telling the said Barnet Connery she could not venture to live with him, the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1415">Barnet</rs>
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Connery threatened to stab this Articulant and went to a Drawer belonging to this Articulant in order as<lb></lb>
this Articulant verily beleives to find a Knife but some persons coming into this Articulants Shop at that<lb></lb>
instant the said Barnet Connery was prevented from further ill treating this Articulant And this Articulant<lb></lb>
further saith that a few Evenings after the said Barnet Connery came again to this Articulants Shop and threatened<lb></lb>
to blow up this Articulants house and to make an End of this Articulant and the said Barnet Connery then<lb></lb>
made use of very herrid Imprecations against this Articulant in so much that this Articulant for the preservation<lb></lb>
of her life was obliged to send for a Constable upon which the said Barnet Connery went away.</p>
<p n="1418"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sixthly</note>
This Articulant upon her Oath saith that on the Thirteenth day of September lastthe said<lb></lb>
Barnet Connery came again to this Articulants Shop and without any provocation on the part of this Articulant<lb></lb>
the said Barnet Connery took up a Knife and with horrid Imprecations threatened to do for this Articulant<lb></lb>
And this Articulant immediately ran from the said Barnet Connery into this Articulants Shop And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1416">Barnet</rs>
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Connery followed this Articulant with the Knife in his hand and again threatened to put an End<lb></lb>
to this Articulants life upon which this Articulant being closely pursued by the said Barnet Connery cried out<lb></lb>
Murder and thereupon this Articulants Neighbour Mr Winter came into this Articulants Shop and saw the<lb></lb>
said Barnet Connery with the Knife in his hand whereupon the Constable was sent for and the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1417">Barnet</rs>
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Connery was taken into Custody and committed Prison for want of Bail And this Articulant hath ever since<lb></lb>
maintained the said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Barnet Connery in Prison.</p>
<p n="1419"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Seventhly</note>
This Articulant upon her Oath further saith that diveing the time the said Barnet Connery was in<lb></lb>
possession of the said Shop the said Barnet Connery frequently threatened to do for this Articulant and often<lb></lb>
threw Plates and other things at her and struck this Deponent twice in a very violent manner And this Articulant<lb></lb>
upon her Oath saith that from the bad Behaviour of the said Barnet Connery towards the Articulant she this<lb></lb>
Articulant apprehends and verily beleives that the said Barnet Connery will do or came to be done some<lb></lb>
great bodily harm to this Articulant and she will be in danger of losing her Life by his use and unless he<lb></lb>
should be reframed therefrom by this Honourable Court.</p>
<p n="1420"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Lastly</note>
This Articulant upon her Oath saith that she doth not exhibit these Articulant from any Malice<lb></lb>
Statred or Ill will towards the said Barnet Connery but merely for the preservation of this Articulants<lb></lb>
life and person from Danger And therefore humbly craves Sureties of the Peace from the said Barnet<lb></lb>
Connery.</p>
<p n="1421">Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1418">Justice Hall in the Old Bailey</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
Friday the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15097_date213">Third Day of November 1786</rs>
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<p n="1422">Frances Connery</p>
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