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       told your Deponent that Mary Taylor told him that She heard Liber B.

       he was much given to women, but he was not half so much

       Given to women as Thomas Davis the Cooper, and he told

       me he asked her whether She knew Thomas Davis, yes Said

       She Very well, I was his Neighbour a great while and he Said

       to me that She told him She heard that her husband was dead

       Saying I never was Soc taken with a man as I am with you.

       O! that I could Love my husband as I Love you, with handling

       her hands in his hair and Such like Gesture, Soc your Depo-

       nent asked him if that was after he had to doe with her, and he

       Said, noe, And he told me that She Said, 0! that my husband

       were Dead, And he told me he Answered her if he were

       Dead, I have a wife, And She Said if my husband were Dead

       I knew what I could Doe, And he told me that the next Morn-

       ing after he had had the use of her She told him that She was

       with Child. And further Sayth not.   the marke of

       Sworn before me this 7thMary M Catchmey

       of May 1653 Rich: Preston

         Peter Johnson aged 42 years or thereabouts Sworne and

       Examined Sayeth. That Comeing to Robert Taylors house

       after his wife was brought to bed Seeing Robt Taylor very

       Solitary Said to him Country I am very Sorry that this Cross

       is Come upon you, I bid him be of Good Cheer for any man

       of understanding would not blame him for it and Robert Tay-

       lor replyed againe and Said when his wife was well he would

       turne her and the Bastard out of Doors, And your Deponent

       tould him Country you are grown So proud and Stately a late

       days, that you do not know whether you goe upon your feet

       or your head, God will find you out, and he replyed in what

       So many words were past betwixt us he Still replying he P 475

       would turn them both out of Doors, when She was well for

       She hath disgraced her Self and me and her Children after-

       wards. And further Sayth not.

       Sworne before me this           of the mark of

       may 1653 Ri: Preston          Peter PI Johnson

         And a day or two afterwards mr Catchmey Comeing to

       your Deponents house, Sate him down upon a Chest. very

       Solitary, Soc your Deponent called him out of Doors and my

       wife talked with him, Yor Deponent heard mr Catchmey Say

       they made him doe any thing what they would, for he was

       afraid of his Life for So Soon as they gott him into the house

       they Shutt the Doors, and Robert Taylor tooke his Gunn in

       his hand, and there was another in the house that Said how

       Can you forbeare a knife Out of his heart, Soc talking together