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( 38 ) 7ber 15th 1692 If yw keep no whore how came it about yr whore miscarries in ye tobacco house & I came & Catch you a holding her back in ye tobacco house, & often times I Sundered yw & yr whore in the tobacco house, & further she Said to her husband did not I the next moring bring in the petticoat to both yr shames. B Rose: { Boyer her marke _________ - - - - - On the 15th: day of December I heard ffrances Williams say to her husband yw Rogue Said She, go & bury yr basterd, for my Child was buried before the Neighbours like A Christian, but as for yours yw may thank the great hoggs in the peach Orchard for that is a lye Saith Thomas: Williams, why Saith She yw damd Rogue did not I catch yw A holding her back in the tobacco house. & the next morning I brought out the Petticoat to both your Open Shames. _____At another time I heard her Swear She catched her husband Thomas: Williams three times a Bed with Mary Berry, & she Shewed me how she Served him, she catched me by the hair, & by the ears & pulld me before her husbands face _____ At another time I have heard ffrances Williams call Mary Berry a Murthering Bitch & a Murthering whore, & Said if right had tuck place you would & had another fine to payd _______ One time when I was drinking at night at Tho: Williams house, I went out of the doors, & I heard a Crying in ye tobacco house & Mary Berry Cryed very often I am undone I am undone. & ffrances. Williams was with her & said Mary: Mary have not I often told yw that Tho: Williams would be the Ruine of yw. & I askt ffra: what was the matter last night in the tobacco house & she would not tell me At another time ffrancies & Mary fell out at night, & ffra. went to bed, & Tho: Williams & Mary Berry went out of doors to the end of the house, & ffr. said to be do yw hear the Rogue & the whore is together, with that Came Mary & Stampt her foot agt the door, and Said lett me Come in yw Baud. (and ffrances Said I will not lett yw in except yw be Civil but ffrances did Open the door & Slept to bed againe, & Thomas and Mary Came in, then they fell to call One another ill names & Mary takes up a fire brand & runs to ffrances Bed & Said yw Bitch, ile burne yw alive with that ffrances Cryes out Murder Murder & Mary Carries the fire brand back againe & did not hurt her: But ffrances runs out of the bed to me & Charles Johnson & Cryed out I shall be murthered betwixt this whore & Rogue, & there she lay in our bed where we lay, & the most part of the night, we could not persuade her to goet down ________ One time I asked this woman what made her to Say So & Soe of her husband, She answered me & Said, Thomas whatsoever I have Said in my passion to him it is true, for Said She I will Swear it before ere a Comissioner in the Land and She === |
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