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<p n="450">St: Johns street July & 12th: 1719</p>
<p n="451">May it please yor Worships</p>
<p n="452">About nine a Clock att might my wife & I being att<lb></lb>
supper, and she having a knife in her hand we having<lb></lb>
a few words, I gave her a push and she fell on the<lb></lb>
knife which caus'd a small cutt on her side, her<lb></lb>
friends being frightned and the surgeon making<lb></lb>
things look worse then they were and I having no<lb></lb>
friend by, in their passion they cal'd a constable<lb></lb>
and Carried me directly away to new Prison, the<lb></lb>
next morning I went before justice Booth there<lb></lb>
being then a nother Surgeon pressent besides the<lb></lb>
surgeon who had her in cure, and a gentleman<lb></lb>
with ye apothe cary & they all took their oaths<lb></lb>
that my wife told them that I did not do it<lb></lb>
with design but by an Accident & they likewise<lb></lb>
see P would & they told P Justice that she was<lb></lb>
in no manner of danger, I told Justice tooth<lb></lb>
that I should loose my buissness if he did not<lb></lb>
discharge me that morning upon my giving ba<lb></lb>
& that I had a wife & child to pay and a<obscured></obscured>
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depended on my place, but he would allow of<lb></lb>
no bale, but confin'd my from tuesday till<lb></lb>
saterday night, by which means I have Intirely<lb></lb>
lost my buissness which was my suport, & so<lb></lb>
now I know not how to maintain my family<lb></lb>
I was in the Excise & the quarlifying my self for that<lb></lb>
Imploy has been a great expence to me, I am yor<lb></lb>
Worships most July full humbl. sert: <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50179_n452-1">Wm. Lee</rs>
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