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       wound againe with a Needle and thread and the Said Servant Liber B.

       Said if he Should deny it, it would be worse for him and further No. 3.

       Saith not                   Signum

                          Elizabeth x Norton

         Andrew Wilcox Sworne and Examined Saith that William

       Bramhalls man Servant that dyed Said that when the Murther

       was done all the people and Seamen in the Ship were asleep

       and after it was done Judith Catchpole and the Said Servant

       of William Bramhall went up upon the Deck and walked a

       quarter of an hour afterward off the went each to their

       Lodging this being at Sea in the middle of the Night and

       further Saith not.

                                      Andrew Wilcox

         Elizabeth Norton Sworne and Examined Saith. That William

       Bramhalls man Said that Judith Catchpole and he did Grind a

       knife Duch fashion and the Said Judith prickt a Seaman in the

       back with it and She beged a Little Grease of the Chirungeon

       and gm-eased his back and he Stood up again, And the Said

       Servant Said that Juith was to kill three or four men more and

       further Saith not              Signum

                          Elizabeth x Norton

         The Names of the Jury of women Impannelled to Search the p. 204

       body of Judith Catchpole Vizt

                (Rose Smith  mrs Cannady

         mrs Belcher I mrs Bussey        

                mrs Chaplin J mrs Brooke

                mrs Brooke j Elizabeth Claxton f

                mrs Battin J Eiizabeth Potter

                             Dorothy Day

         We the lury of Women before named having according to

       our Charge and oath Searched the body of Iu4ith Catchpole

       doe give in our Verdict tilat according to our best Iudgment

       that the Said Judith Catchpole hath not had any Child within

       the time Changed.

         Whereas Judith Catchpole Servant to William Dorrington of

       this Province of Maryland Was apprehended and brought

       before this Court upon Suspicion of Murthering a Child in her

       Voyage at Sea bound for this Province in the Ship Mary and

       ffrancis who Set forth of England upon her intended Voyage

       in on about october Last 1655 and arrived in this Province in

       or about Ianuary following, and her accuser being deceased

       and no mum-then appearing upon hen Examination denying the