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Image 318 of 38119th November 1781


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The Information of Budget the Wife of James Baxter< no role > of
Hoxten Market Place facing the Three Butcher in the
County of Middlesex Jeweller Taken this 7th Dec 1704

Saith that on Tuesday the Twenty seventh of November last about
one o' Clock she went to Lee the Prisoner House in the [..] mones
says that was not usual to go into his House whole there was a
Customer in the Shop, that Mr Lee cause up to her and askt her
wife she was and that she told him Mr Baster you are the Gentleman
I want I know you this you dont know me that the Prisoner thereupon
askt Informant to follow him into the Paslom and he would look at
he goods, that he took up her Hand kerchief with the goods and the the followed
him into a Second Room beyond the shop, where he opened the HandKerchief
and there then came in a Man Dresser , with whom the Prisoner went into
the next Room, that as Soon as the Hard dresser was gone, Lee the Prisoner
came up to Informant sayd nothing to her but put his Hands round her
was and pressed her close [..] him, that Informant askt him what he
was going to of and desired he would not are her ile and if he wanted
bad wenten there were enough in the Sheets, that the Prisoner the finshed
her about the he got her into the further corner of the Room next the
Window which Informant threatened to break, that the Prisoner
thereupon took her to the other corner of the Room, that she say'd the
would scream out, and he pressed her to his pesem that she did
any out And enough to be heard if any Person was in the Shop
and had a hand to hear her; that the Prisoner struggled with her
so much that the was rest able to cry out, the she cried out
that some person might hear her but nobody could or and not chase
to hear her, That the Prisoner further her with Chair and of the
Chairs on the Ground, that he got the Potter & her and were hed her
Clothes up and pressed her to his Bosom till he entred into her body agt her will and [..]
that he Court the Chair down and twisted it on the Floor, that Informant
cried out "for Christ sake what have youd one to me, and the Prisoner
replied I must, I must, that she believes he was half an hour before
he got the letter of her, that as soon as she recovered she got up and
went away, that she was in the House about our Hour in the whole




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