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    leased of the sayd sanuice for many and iust occasions which your Liber B
    petitioner shall declare hear in the Petition and this upon oath in
    manner following the sayd Lumbroso asked of mee if I woold giue
    Consent to let him ly with my wife and bee woold giue mee one halfe
    of his, boath land and hogs and all that hee had and woold Recorded
    it Court and that Joseph Dorosell shoold draw the Condition and this
    bee spoake to me in giles glouers loged hows and hee bid mee speak to
    my wife that shee shoold giue Consent to fulfill his lust, and that I
    shoold neuer want and did wish hee might perish if hee did not giue
    me what bee got abroud and Could get and bring it home to mee if
    my wife woold giue her Consent to fulfill his desir
      Margery goold dechaneth that the sayd Lumbnoso woold haue her
    to bee his whoore and when my housband is out of the way hee is
    still at mee to delued mee to fulfill his Lust and so bee tooke mee in
    his armes and threw mee upon the bed and thear woold haue the use
    of my bodie and I Crying out aloud and then bee let mee goe and
    afterwards I asked him if hee was not ashamed and bee sayd to mee [p. 117]
    that hee was not and that bee woold show mee scriptur for it thearfor
    for this unlawfull dooing your petioner desiers to bee released from
    him and that the sayd Lumbroso shoold giue them satisfaction for the
    time that thay haue bin with him and wee are misused by him because
    wee doe not yeald to his lust and bee is in hopes still to haue his desire
    of your Petitioners

      Whearupon the sayd Johnson still infered that in probabilitie it
    might bee trew for that publicke fame wold giue him no good report
    and that thees people if licensd to tacke thear oaths woold rather
    occasion a punishment to bee inflicted on them then any satisfaction
    to bee awarded them to attribute to him for the reparation of his good
    fame and that if the Plantiue woold or durst Prosecute his action in
    the prouinciall Count bee in the behalfe of his Chants woold main-
    tame and defend the same
      Whearupon the Plantiue withdrew himself and the defendant
    Cnaued a nonsuit which was granted It is thearfor ordered that the
    Plantiue shoold bee nonsuited and pay the Cost and Change of suit:

    John alias Jacob Lumbroso Attunney The Plantiue aresting the de
      to Jame Veich Plantiue fendant in an action of debt
    John Tomkinson Defendant      which the defendant alleageth
    to haue payd to Mr Burdit by James Viches order and thear for humbly
    Craueth a ref enance which is granted:

    John Lumbroso Atturney The Plantiue aresting the defendant in
      to James Veich Plantiue an action of debt and producing the spe
    Richard Trew Defendant ciallty the defendant pleaded that it was
    non of his deed and the Plantiue not heeing able to proue it the de