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<p n="537">The Examinacon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n537-1">Francis Okey</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo133"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo134">Chelsey</rs>
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in ye county<lb></lb>
of Midds</rs>
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taken upon oath the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50010_date56">3d. day of<lb></lb>
May 1691</rs>
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. before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n537-2">Richard Woodward</rs>
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. out of their<lb></lb>
Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50010_occ112">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo135">Midds</rs>
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<lb></lb>
upon the suspicon of the robbing and murthering of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n537-5">William Philldew</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo136"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo137"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo138">Newport market</rs>
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in the parish of<lb></lb>
St. Anns</rs>
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in the said County of Midds</rs>
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. The Sd<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n537-6">Francis Okey</rs>
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being first sworne upon the holy Evangilists<lb></lb>
saith That on Munday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50010_date57">27th. of Aprill</rs>
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last <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n537-8">Willm<lb></lb>
Philldew</rs>
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aforesd. wth. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n537-3">Henry Peters</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n537-4">Henry King</rs>
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into this Deponents house at ye <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo139"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo140">signe of the worlds end</rs>
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in<obscured></obscured>
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Chelsey</rs>
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aforesd. betweene 10: and 11. of the Clock in ye<obscured></obscured>
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forenoone, and continued there till about 5. or 6. in the<lb></lb>
afternoone, and afterwards they went to the widow<lb></lb>
Hunts at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo141"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo142">ye Signe of the Cock</rs>
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in Chelsey</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
where as this Depont. was afterward informed That<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n537-9">Henry Peters</rs>
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should say this was his old Landlord mea<obscured></obscured>
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-ing Phildew, and askd him what he would doe now he had<obscured></obscured>
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left off his house and was broke or words to that effect<lb></lb>
Phildew said he would get into the Gards, Peters to<obscured></obscured>
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him yt. would cost a great deale of money, whereupon<obscured></obscured>
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Phildew answered I have money enough and putting<lb></lb>
his hand in his Jocket pluckt out both silver and gole<obscured></obscured>
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afterward as this derpont. was informed by the said<obscured></obscured>
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Phildew and King That peters should say to King<obscured></obscured>
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not sword, but yor. shall lend me yor. sworn and as<obscured></obscured>
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dow goes home I will kiss him, and we will take an<lb></lb>
his money or words to ye same effect, afterwards<obscured></obscured>
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goes into Meis. Hunts Kitchen and sitting by himself<obscured></obscured>
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in a malancholy posture wth. his hat pluckt ever<obscured></obscured>
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Tyes, the Groome of Esqr. Wharton come to him<obscured></obscured>
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asteth him the said King who she<obscured></obscured>
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and why he was soe malancholy and lifted up his has<lb></lb>
and askd him if he cryd, then King said he was in a<lb></lb>
great deale of trouble and told the said Groome that<lb></lb>
Peters would borrow his sword meaning the sword of<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the said King to kill his old Landlord meaning the<lb></lb>
said Phildew and robb him of his mony as he was<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
goeing home over the feilds and the said King desired<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Groome to tell Phildew, that Peters had a<obscured></obscured>
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