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that the said Mr Doyle about a Month ago assured this Deponent that
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he would support and defend the said
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against this Deponent and
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go throw with it let it cost him what it would or to that effect And this Deponent
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about a Fortnight ago saw the said
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well Cloathed and with a
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Watch in his Pocket which he pulled out and told this Deponent that he
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would give her Law enough and would throw Forty pounds after her
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And this Deponent saith that this Deponent was a few days ago informed
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by Mrs. Murfey who is an acquaintance of the said
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's that
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she had heard a Letter that day read which came from sd. Defendant Foxe's
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said Wife at Castle Ray aforesaid wherein was mentioned that she had then
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got forty pounds from her Father & would soon bring that Sum or More
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to the Defendant her Husband and be reestablished in there former
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way of life or to that effect And this Deponent saith that the said
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Patrick
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at the time this Deponent had an Opportunity of seeing his Goods
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and
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Furniture as abovementioned had in his said houses amongst
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other Goods & Furniture eight very good Feather Beds and also one
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good Down Bed and also a Flock Bed in all ten Beds with Bed
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steads and other things thereto belonging And this Deponent saith
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the several Affidavits made by and on the part of the said
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Patrick
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or alter
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(upon him on his Conviction
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on this Prosecution are Contrived to
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and impose upon this Honble
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Court as this Deponent
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believes And this Dept saith that the said
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Patrick
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paid after the rate of ten pounds by the Year for each of the said
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houses in all twenty pounds a Year which he so held as aforesaid
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which he paid at first Quarterly but at last Weekly to avoid taxes as
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he and his said Wife informed this Deponent and which this Deponant
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verily believes to be true this Deponent was present when the said Mr. Fox
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paid some of those Rents And this Dept saith that she hath been put to
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considerable expences
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and besides what her Solicitor laid out at
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Hick's
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in preferring her Bill of Indictment
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this Prosecution and Attendances in the several Sessions afterwards & particularly in January
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Session's last when this Dept. and all her Witnesses Attended several days with
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her Solicitor or his Clerk the Deft having
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Notice of Trial for that Session and also in last May Sessions when the said
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came into Court in order to obtain his discharge by undue practice as this
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Deponent was informed and believes
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Sworn at
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the sixth day of July 1771}
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The Mark of
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the said
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Ann Stevens
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By the Court
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Butler.
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