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    ing of wine, and after this deponant had bin in thear Companie a Liber A
    while Mr Baker and hee beeing at A distance from the Rest, Mr
    Baker sayed to this deponant did you euer heare of such an impudent
    Queane Such an Notorious whore as this Neuills wife is and this
    deponant asking him why, hee replyed that shee was no sooner got
    to her bede after her deliuery but she Called to Empson to Come
    get her a boy to her Girle, and Empson turning himselfe about Called
    of his dogge saying hee was more fitting to doe it and this deponant
    further sayeth that at an other time Mr Baker tould him that hee and
    Empson had so Jeared John Blackwood Concerning John Neuils
    Wife that hee swore hee woold neuer hunt a baron dow againe and
    further Mr Baker Sayd hang him Rouge I know hee can as well bee
    hanged as forbaer her Companie for I know hee fukes her oftener
    then John Neuill himselfe, and further sayeth not

     Richard Dod Sworne in open Court sayeth that hee neuer did hear
    Mr Baker defame John Neuils Wife in terming her to bee a whoare
    and that hee woold proue her a Common Whore neither befor Mr
    Thompson nor be for any bodie els and further sayeth not:

     James Fox Sworne in open Court sayeth That hee hard Mr Baker [p. 227]
    say that hee heard that John Neuils wife was to haue sworne against
    him in the behalfe of William Robisson but if shee had Come to
    haue sworne hee woold haue endeauored to haue put her by, for that
    shee was a Common Whore by her Childerens Relation and that
    beeing newly deliuered of a Girle as shee lay in bed shee inuited a
    man that accidentally happened to bee thear to Come to bed to her
    and get her a boy to her Girle, at which hee sayd the party turned
    himselfe about and Called his doge to performe the office as more fit
    ting for a dogge then a man and further sayeth not:

     the Plantiue Desiers Daniell Johnson to bee sworne which is
    granted
     Daniell Johnson Sworne in open Court sayeth that sumtime in the
    year one thowsand six hundered fifty eight this deponant liuing at
    William Robissons Mr Baker Come and fetched him to goodman
    Neuills hows and hee asking what the Matter was Remembers thear
    was sum differance betweene them but what it was hee doath not
    Certainly Remember only that Mr Baker Promissed John Neuill that
    thear shoold bee noe such differance any more but that thay shoold
    liue frindly togeather and further sayeth not

     The Defendant desirs a subpenes for Mr Husey his wife Elisabeth
    and Marie dod which was granted and sworne in open Court

     Mary dod Aged 26 years or thear abouts sworne and examined in
    open Court sayeth that shee heard Susan Robisson say that presantly
    after goodie Neuill was braught to bed william Ernpson Came in