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Taken on Oath before me one of His Majesty's
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in and for the said County this 6th July
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1795.
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Who saith That on or about the 27 May
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1794 the
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came to her House and agreed to take a room of
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her/she then lived at No 10
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/ and to be provided with Tea and Breakfast at
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Ten Shillings per week, and he said he was very sorry
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to put his Informant to an Inconvenience by taking a
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single room, but if pre found her and her Husband
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agreeable People he should most probably remain these
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is long as th lived. The Prisoner told her he had a
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large Chest of Family plate and Linen comming from the
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Country, and that he would at any time lend her Linen
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if she wanted it, and would find his won Linen, The
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and made himself very agreeable, talking much of religion
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and religious Duties and Joined with the Family in worship
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that Evening and the next morning. that the next
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Morning as soon as the Informant Husband was gone to
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the Bank the Prisoner asked to speak with her alone, she went
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with him to the dining Room, when after walking to and
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fro' and singing a bit of a Hippn to himself told her she
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expected his Chest that Morning to arrive in
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, that
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he had bestowed a great deal of Money in a Law Suit
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which he had in hand and was guite short in Money not
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having so much as would pay for the carriage of his Chest
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and desired her to lend him a few Shillings, she felt in her
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Pocket and found she had only 2/6 which she lent him,-
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out the Prisoner seeming much distressed, and thinking that
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he was a very good Man, she sent out and borrowed half
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