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