Wild and turbulent Temper And this Deponent further saith that about
Eleven or Twelve Days after the said Mary came home from her said
Elopement He discovered as her lay in Bed a Razor concealed between the
Bolster and the Bed, which this Deponent apprehends and verily
believes was put and placed there by the said Mary with an Intention to
assasinate or do this Deponent some Mischief And this Deponent further
saith that after the said Mary came home as aforesaid She absolutely
refused and neglected to Dress Victuals Dash Mend or cause the same
to be done for this Deponent so that this Deponent was obliged to have the
same done out of Doors by reason whereof and by Means of such ill usage as
aforesaid this Deponent has been entirely deprived of the Comforts of A
Matrimonial State And this Deponent further saith that having Occasion
he went into the Country on the Twelfth and did not return till the fourteenth
of December last in the Evening when to his great Surprize (he not
having had any previous Words or Quarrel with the said Mary) for
sometime before) he found that the said Mary had a Second time
Eloped from this Deponent and had stripped his Apartmet of all the
Furniture and had left him never a Ded to lie on and had also taken
Writings and other Things to the Amount of £200 and upwards and also
part of this Deponents Linnen and this Dept. hath not had any
Intelligence or heard any Thing of the said Mary till he was served
with Notice of Articles of the Peace being Exhibited against him by her
And this Deponent saith that he never struck the said Mary at all or
in any other Manner than as hereinbefore mentioned and excepted, And
Lastly this Dept. saith that the said Mary has preferred the said
Articles against him purely to harr so and distress him and to prevent
his carrying on any Prosecution against her and her Confederates,
And as the stricking of her was so long ago as the Seventeenth of
Septr. last, the Exhibition of the said Articles will appear to be malicious
by Reason of there having been three Sessions interveen'd; at either of
which Sessions the said Mary might and ought to have preferred the
same if She had any Cause for Complaint.
Edward Payne< no role >
Sworn in Court this
14th day of Janry 1762
By the Court me
Waller.