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to wit
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The Information of
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20th.
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Who being upon Oath says that in June last she lived
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who then Lodged in the house of Mr. Giblett
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an Engraver at
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, Says that one day in the said Month
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of June between Eleven and Twelve of the Clock in the forenoon
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she this Informt. went up Stairs into her Master's Bed Chamber
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with an Intent to call him to Breakfast, Says that when she
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Wm. Carpenter
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since Deceased (the Bed
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Cloathes not being upon them at that time) and upon this
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Informts. going Into the aforesaid Room, the said
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gott off the said Carpenter and presently afterward saw him
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whipe his private parts with his Shirt And this Informt.
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further says that from the reasons aforesaid she verily beleives
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that they Committed the Detertable Sin of Sodomy betwixt
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them, Says that
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upon her asking her Master if he was not
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of being Guilty of such An Action, hereplyed
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that it was an Unhappy gift that God has given him, and he
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could not Live without it, Says that she spoke to Carpenter
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at the same time and asked him the same Questions, To which
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he Replyed her Master would never let him alone, and that he
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the said Fawcet had, ruined the said Carpenter's body and Soule
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Sworn before me
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this
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20th. April 1749
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H Fielding
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her
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Mary 3 Griffis
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Mark
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