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words to that effect and that he Deserved to be sent home
fast, or in Chains, that upon those words his Lspp asked Mr
Rousby what was the reason he had soe abused him, that
Mr Rousby thereupon rapt out a greate Oath and swore that
what he said was true that he had from undr the Kings hand
and Seale for it and that her Ladyshipp upon this Discourse
fell a crying.
John Burdett then sworne saith that in the Hall of Henry
Exons house at St Johns he heard Thomas Smith say, that
his Lspp and Mr Rousby had lately in discourse had extraordi-
nary high words that Mr Rousby called his Lspp: Tray tor and
told him he might expect to heare more of it or words to that
effect.
William Person next Examined what he knew in the prem-
isses positively Denys that he ever heard any thing of that
nature; and nothing being alledged agt him he is Dismissed.
Thomas Smith then called and Examined where he had this
Intelligence upon Oath Declares as foll: viz
That one ffriday night to the best of his Remembrance after
he came with his Sloope from the Governors house he was
lyeing in the Cabin of his sd Sloope and another Sloope of
Henry Exons was lyeing by wch had also been at the Gov-
ernors house for wines In wch Sloope was one Arthur Hart
who went home in the night, and about breake a Day came
aboard his the said Smiths Sloope bringing with him his Mate
one Thomas Price that the said Arthur Hart went aboard sd
Exons Sloope to Draw a bottle of wine and returned again
where falling into Discourse with the sd Price he the said
Smith (still lyeing in his Cabin) heard him say that Mr Rousby
had called the Ld Propry Runnaway wch if a poore man had
Done he would certainly have been laid Neck and heeles, but
Mr Rousby was not afraid to tell him soe, Whereupon he the
said Smith heareing these words rose out of his Cabin and
told them it could not be that he did not beleive any such
thing. To wch the said Hart replied it was true that they
heard it credibly reported at a Christening or a ffunerall
(whither he the sd Smith cannot now certainly remember)
And that the sd Price immediately stood up and said yes it
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was true Enough, And that the Lord Propry had thereupon
taken his Negro Peter and was gone up to the Governorrs
house, Moreover the said Hart or Price one of them said that
her Ladyshipp dureing the Discourse betweene his Lspp & Mr
Rousby fell a crying, and that Mr Rousby swore he had spoke
noe more then what he could produce from undr the Kings
hand and Seale for; And further the sd Smith saith that One
Simon Perden then in the Sloope with him heard the sd Hart
and Price utter these words.
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