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S^d Norton loved her the Said Palldin very well, This Deponent made
the Said Palldin Answer, and asked her how She Could find in her
heart to love him, She the Said Palldin answered Oh! Mary he
loveth me Dearly, and Sayd She was Confident he would have her

if his wife were dead and at the Same time She the Said Palldin war.

quick with Child (but this Deponent did not know it) and would
have taken Physick, ffarther this Deponent Sayeth that Iohn Norton.

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hath given to her this Deponent the Same relation, and hath declared
that he did Love her wonderfully and that She was an Extrordinary
Good housewife, and that he would have her before any woman in
the Countrey, for he loved her as Dearly as his Life, but desired me
this deponent that I would not reveale it, farther this Deponent
Saith that Goodwife Norton, would have had the Said Palldin, to
have Laid the Child to one George Hardestie and Iane made Answer
and wished that She mought never be delivered, if Bess Norton
would not have had her father'd on him, but the Said Iane would
not, farther this Deponent Sayeth that She this Deponent taxeing
Iane Palldin why She did wrong this Deponents m^rs and Said that
m^rs Dorrington had perswaded her to father the Child upon Iohn
Norton, the Said Palldin made Answer, that She forced by Norton's
wife to Speake what She did to Live at quiett, and Desired m^rs
Dorrington to be Contented. And farther this Deponent Sayth not
Signum
Mary H Hebborne

Peter Underwood aged twenty and one yeares or thereabouts
Sworne and Examined, Sayeth that he this Deponent went up to
the house of Iohn Norton about October last to marke Cattle, and not
having a rope went to borrow one, and that he this Depon^t Comeing
out of the house did miss his handkerchief from his neck and went
thereupon back again to the Said Nortons house, and at his Comeing
in did See Iane Palldin, and the Said Norton Sitting upon two
Stooles together by the fire Side, and the Said Norton Satt with his
hand in the Slitt of the Said Palldin's Coate before, and as I this
Deponent passed by the Said Norton did draw back his Stoole a Little
way from the Said Palldin and blusht. And farther this Deponent
Saith not Peter Underwood

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Thomas Turner Sworne and Examined in open Court Sayth, that
he this Deponent was Sent by his master William Dorrington up
to Iohn Norton's house to marke Cattle, and this Deponent de-
manded of the Said Norton, where he intended to live the next yeare
the Said Norton answered that he intended to live where he was,
farther this deponent demanded of the Said Norton what he would
do with Iane Palldin, being She was with Child, he the Said Norton
Said, that if he Should leave as for what was betwixt him and the

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