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