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<p n="208">The King agt <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n208-3">Lydia Martin</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n208-1">David Martin</rs>
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at the Prosecution of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n208-2">Mary Paed</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n208-4">John Paed</rs>
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<p n="209">Mary Paed the prosecutrix maketh Oath that after this Dept. had him<lb></lb>
ill for a fortnight under the care of a Surgeon by reason of the Assault hurts and<lb></lb>
bruises she received from the Defendant and of which the Defendt. hath been<lb></lb>
convict and before she was well recovered that is to say on or about the Nineth<lb></lb>
day of May last she was taken up by a Constable on a Warrant granted by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15048_occ76">Sr</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n209-1">William Billers</rs>
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on the Defts. Complaint for Assaulting and beating her of which<lb></lb>
she had made Oath tho' in truth this Dept. never did Assault or beat her at all<lb></lb>
and it being late in the Evening when she was taken up by the Constable she<lb></lb>
was put into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo210">Woodstreet</rs>
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Counter and kept there all Night And the next day<lb></lb>
She was carryed before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15048_n209-2">William Billers</rs>
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and obliged with two other<del>past</del>
<lb></lb>
Persons to enter into a Recognizance for her Appearance at the then next<lb></lb>
Sessions of the Peace at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15048_geo211">Guildhall</rs>
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when and where this Dept. accordingly<lb></lb>
appeared and there being as prosecution this Depont. withdrew her said<lb></lb>
Recognizance And this Dept. further maketh Oaths that be reason of the Cold<lb></lb>
she reced by lying in the Counter and being hurry'd about on the Defendts.<lb></lb>
Warrant as aforesaid she had a Relapse and continued ill and was obliged to have<lb></lb>
One Mrs. Roberts a Nurse for a whole Week afterwards And these Dept. further<lb></lb>
Maketh Oath that the several sumes of money in the Account hereunto<lb></lb>
annexed were really and truly paid laid out and expended by this Dept. or for<lb></lb>
her at her request for the several Purposes and on the several Occasions in the<lb></lb>
said Account particularly charged amounting in the Whole to the Sum<lb></lb>
of Six pounds two Shillings and one penny And this Dept. continued in so<lb></lb>
ill a Condition for the Space of Eleven Weeks after the said Assault by reason<lb></lb>
thereof and of her said Impresonment that she could not Work at her business of<lb></lb>
Cappmaking And for the last Eight Weeks of that time boarded with Mrs<lb></lb>
with whom she lodged at the rate of five shillings a Week wch comes to forty shillings And for wth she<lb></lb>
Hyde hitherto hath had orded it for the sum Mrs Hydes And this Depont. further maketh Oath that at her business of Cap<lb></lb>
making she of ten times earned Eight Shillings a Week but never less then<lb></lb>
Six shillings a Week which for Eleven Weeks she computes to amount to three pounds<lb></lb>
Six shillings a Week which said Forty shillings and three pounds Six shillings being added <lb></lb>
to the said sum of Six pounds two shillings and one penny will amount to</p>
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