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<p n="111">One MrsEdwards is prosecutor against<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50294_n111-1">Elizabeth Tempest</rs>
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for Suspition of Felony &</p>
<p n="112">As I have a publick Office, requires my strict attendance, hope the<lb></lb>
Honorable Court will forgive this; and excuse my Duty waiting<lb></lb>
on them.</p>
<p n="113">The Barer the Defendant <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50294_n113-1">Elizabeth Tempest</rs>
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I mean, about a week Since<lb></lb>
have received into my Service; a perfect Stranger, any otherwise than<lb></lb>
by the Character my wife received with her then, by her late mis'tress<lb></lb>
Ms. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50294_n113-2">Tabitha Nebb</rs>
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who (amongst other things) Declared that the<lb></lb>
Said Elizabeth Tempest had lived with her, at times about 4 or 5<lb></lb>
yeares; without mentioning the said Tempest being Charg'd with the<lb></lb>
present Suspition of Felony, I humbly Submit the Mistress ought to have<lb></lb>
done: If so, my wife had never entertained the said Tempest for a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50294_occ33">Servant</rs>
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(tho She wanted one) And she Ms Webb also asserted to my<lb></lb>
wife in general termes that the said Tempest had never wrong'd her<lb></lb>
& my wife apprehending her innocent from her own Mistresses Charactor<lb></lb>
the said Tempest Came to my Service.</p>
<p n="114">Now the Defend most humbly appeals for the Justices of this Honoble Court<lb></lb>
and prays, and Insists that the prosecutor may be obliged to proceed to<lb></lb>
effect her innocency, She hereby puts to the Test Off, Or that She may<lb></lb>
be discharged: This being her Care and the Close of a Second Session<lb></lb>
held in the State of Durance, and to be held over with her Sureties most<lb></lb>
humbly Submit without prosecution contrary to Law, And besides<lb></lb>
a very great uneasiness to selfe and Family occasioned by her Mistress<lb></lb>
ungenerous Stifleing this charge which She know off to my wife</p>
<p n="115">If</p>
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