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Articles of the Peace exhibited by Ann the
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Wife of Christopher
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Henry Edwards
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against her said Husband, now a Prisoner in
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Complex Her was &
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of Sureties, through Fear of her Life, or of bodily Harm to be done, or procured to
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be done unto her by her said Husband.
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First the said
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Ann Edwards
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on her Oath Saith, that she hath been married to
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Christopher Henry Edwards
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Sixteen Years and for the last ten Years her said Husband
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hath so much addicted himself to Idleness and Drunkenness, that upon in Liquor he
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behaves like a Bradman, stamping, rosing sevearing and threatening to blow up all the
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bloody Neighbourhood of Creed Lane and Holiday Yard, whereby many and frequent
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Alarms and Disturbances have been created in the said Neighbourhood, and the Life of her
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this Examinant often times endangered.
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Item-This Examinant Further saith, that her said Husband hath very often
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assaulted
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her with Knives, Forks and other Dangerous Instruments, threatening to murder
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this Examinant and at the same time Declaring "he never should red till he did bloody Murder"
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and Examinant to save her Life was obliged to run away out of the House.
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Item-This Examinant Further saith that her said Husband for such Correct and
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Misdemeanors
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against the publick Peace hath been six or seven times committed to
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Prison by the Magistrates of this City For want of Sureties on the Oath of her this
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Examinant and particularly about a Month ago For assaulting her with a large Fork
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and threatening to run it in the bloody Grits of her this Examinant, and also holding part
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of a marble Slab, said. "blast you, you Bitch I'll there this at your Bloody Brains"
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Item-This Examinant Further saith, that she hath frequently forgiven her said Husband
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and released him out of Prison and once before exhibited Articles of the Peace against him, but,
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although he promised he hath not amended, and she doth not prefer these Articles from
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any other Motive, than that of regard for her personal Safety, thinking he will one day murder
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her if he is not confined.
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Mark
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Ann
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her
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Exhibited and poors at Justices Hall in the
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By the Court
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