Court and Testamentary Business, 1657. 507

         Mary Gillford aged 30 yeares or thercabout, Sworne & Ex- Liber B.

       amined, Sayth that the last Lords day, being in her husbands No. 3.

       house, looking forth at the Door did See the wife of Tames

       Attcheson, going over the fence, I asked a woman named

       Susan Barbary who was by, what She thought the Said Susan

       Attcheson, went over there for and asked her if She would go,

       and we would See, what the Said Susan Attcheson went over

       there for, and She Said yes, upon which we went without the

       Plantation a Compass about, and did See the Said Susan, and

       one John Nevill in the Thickett Standing up by a Tree upon

       which we turned back againe, to Call more Company, and

       Speaking to one Sanders Watts his wife, She went with us to

       the place, where we had Seen them before, but they were gone

       from that place, and looking about, we did See them in another

       place, in the thickett together upon the Ground by the Side of

       a tree, from whence I See them rise up, and Came to them I

       asked the woman what She did there, who answered that She

       went to go to the Garden, But this Deponent Saith, that there

       was no Garden that way but quite another way

                            Signum

                        Mary x Gillford

         Johanna Watts aged 25 years or thereabouts Sworne Saith,

       That what the abovenamed Deponent hath Said to her knowl-

       edge is truth, And farther Saith that when we found them, the

       Said Susan Attcheson, and John Nevill in the Thickett, they

       were Setting by a Tree Side that lay upon the Ground, And

       Comeing to them I this Deponent did Speake to the man, and

       asked him, if he were not ashamed to do So, having had Warn-

       ing of Such doings, The Said Nevill replyed and desired me 2 81

       this Deponent, that I would Say nothing to the Said Susan

       Attcheson's husband, then I asked the Said Susan, why She

       Came there, who answered that She Came not there to

       meet with him the Said Nevill, but to go to her Garden

       I this Deponent asked her, if her Garden were that way,

       but this depont Saith, that the Garden was not that way

       but Contrary another way, And farther this Deponent Saith,

       that about a fortnight before the Sabbath day last, She asked

       the Said Susan Attcheson, why She did frequent the Said

       Nevill's Company, and would not Love her husband, who

       replyed her husband did abuse her, She Could not love him,

       And farther this Deponent Sayth, that She did hear her hus-

       band Sander Watts Say, that, when Iames Attcheson was over

       at the Court, which was adjourned, that the Said Iohn Nevill

       and Susan Attcheson did lye in bed together, and that the

       Said Susan did Call the Said Nevill to bed to her, And farther

       Sayth not,                  Signum

                             lohanna x Watts