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Who saith that on or about three Weeks before Midsummer day
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when this Informant asked the said Green if he
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wanted a House when he the said Green and he was come to look
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at it Saith that the said Green and that it must be repaired
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when this Informant told the said Green that he would repair it
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and put a new Door to it, That he this Informant asked the
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said Green where he lived last, he told him in
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that Green told him this informant that he would let him know
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about twelve oClock whether he would have the House or not
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That he the said Green returned about five oClock in the afternoon
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and told this Informant he would have the House at the Rent
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of Six pounds Ten Shillings P year and told this Informant if
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he would allow him a Guinea he would do some little Repair to
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the House himself, as he would huse to paper a part of it, which
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this Informant agreed to do, Saith that he this Informant asked
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the said Green were he should go to enquire his Character, when
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he the said Green gave this Informant a Direction to a Person
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on the other side of the Water, were he this Informant sent
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who gave him a good Character, to the Satisfaction of this Informant
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That in two or three days afterwards he the said Green came and
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took Possession of this Informants House before this Informants
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Men had finished such Repairs which he this Informant agreed
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to do saith that he the said Green continued in the said house
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a few Weeks after Michaelmas day That about two or three days
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before Michaelmas day he this Informant called at Greens
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house purmisnously when he the said Green told this Informant
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that he should like to leave the said House to a Woman they
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present who the said Green called his sister which this Informant
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always before took for the said Greens wife
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the day and year above written
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