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<p n="123">Seeming Tractibility & Sivillity to the Customers Engaged Roberts to listen to further Proposals made<lb></lb>
by Defts Friends, which was, That they wod. give Roberts the Sum of £80. Provided<del>they</del>
he wod. take him<lb></lb>
off their hands & provide him with Meat Drink <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Lodging & Cloaths during his Defts Life And the Fellow<lb></lb>
was very ready to engage with Roberts as his Friends advised And Roberts being enduced by his then<lb></lb>
present Behaviour & in Respect Roberts had for the Persons who recommended him Agreed to take Deft upon Such<lb></lb>
Terms And his (Defts) Friends glad of Such an Opportunity of disposing of him & being determined to make<lb></lb>
a Sure Bargain Proposed Roberts's entering into & Executing a Bond to Deft (as Roberts's Information is<lb></lb>
though it is rather to be Supposed to Defts Trustees who had the Disposal of him Roberts having no<lb></lb>
Duplicate & as the Same is in their Custody) in the Penalty (will Suppose of double the Sum) Conditioned<lb></lb>
that Roberts his Extors Etc in Consn. of £80. paid by them shod. find & provide Deft with good & Suffr.<lb></lb>
Meat & Wearing Apparel during his Natural Life And it was Conditioned on part of Deft to do & Execute<lb></lb>
all the lawfull Commands of Roberts in his Business & to perform Such Services as he shod. think proper<lb></lb>
to Order or Employ him or to such or the like Effect And on Such or the like Terms Matters were Settled &<lb></lb>
Roberts Executed Such Bond without Deft Executing any Memdum or Agreemt. to Roberts for his Defts performing<lb></lb>
his part of the Condition</p>
<p n="124">For Some time after this the Deft behaved very well in his Services to Roberts But for Some time Since<lb></lb>
People having instilled Notions into his Head that such Considn. Money was paid Roberts merely for providing for<lb></lb>
him during Life without any other Considn. on his part has Encouraged the Fellow in his Idle Disposition<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
back'd<lb></lb>
by his own Natural Profligacy<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
& wicked twin of Mind to Abandon himself<del>to</del>
so far as to Commit the most Outragious<lb></lb>
Acts of Impudence & Tyranny immaginable not only in refusing to Work or do any thing whatever thats required<lb></lb>
of him But publickly to Insult Roberts & the Prosecutrix (in various Instances) in a most open Scandalous<lb></lb>
& Insolent Manner.</p>
<p n="125">The present Fact on which this present Indictment is founded (amongst many Others which the<lb></lb>
Prosecutrix will inform the Court & Jury but being a Woman of a Timerous Disposition must be Called<lb></lb>
on by you to gives her Evidence with as much Calmness & Security as possible) is this</p>
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