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, was indicted, for that she on the
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, and to him, was then and there married; and that afterwards, to wit, on the twenty seventh of April, in the second Year of his Majesty's Reign, she the said Sommers, in the Parish of
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To this Indictment the Prisoner pleaded not Guilty; and desired her Trial might be deferr'd 'till next Sessions, many of her Witnesses being in the Country, and she on that Account unable to make a proper Defence. Which Request was granted by the Court.
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