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HSA1680/W/81
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Deposition: Ellis (Knight), Naseby, spinster.
Travels with Ric.Knight. She had met Jn.Gurney, butcher of Hockliffe, only once. The Examination of Ellis (the wife of Richard Knight) late of Naseby in the County of Northampton spinster, taken before me Wm Duncombe Esqr one of his Majesties of the peace for the sd County [Bedford] at Battlesden this 31th day of Augt 1679 This Examt saith that on tuesday night last being the 26th of Augt she & her husband Richd Knight lay at the Chequer in Layton, where the sd Richard pickt up William Needham, & from thence on wensday morning they went all three towards Winsloe in the County of Bucks, whether this examt was going to buy lace (that being her trade) that her husband & the sd Needham went before, for she being not well could not keep pace with them, and that about halfe a mile from the towne of Winsloe they staid for this examt & then they all three went to the signe of the Boot, & there lay that night, & on thursday in the evening she this examt & her sd husband left the sd Nedham at Winsloe, and that about a mile & an halfe from the sd towne, this examt came on her way towards Layton, & her sd husband went crosse over the feilds & the next morning about day he overtook her again, and then this examt asked her husband where he had been, & he told her he had been for some cheep, but he could not drive them an end, so had left them in a furzey feild by a windmill. And this Examt being asked if she knew John Gurney of Hockliffe a butcher, said she saw him once on wensday last at Layton and never before: that on fryday being the 29th of Augt she came from Layton to Hockliffe together with her sd husband, where they lay at the signe of the Unicorne, & from thence they went to the crosse keys in Wooburne, where they lay on Saturday night, & that she never was at Hockliffe but that night in her life, upon which being asked, how she came to say before that they went to Hockliffe for some linnen, they had left there to be washed, she made answer, that her husband had left some there before as he came from London, but there was nothing of hers, for she had never been there in her life before. Then this Examt being asked where she was married to this husband she answered at Rainstrip in the County of Northampton, and some time after denied it again and said she was married at Naseby to this husband, and to her former husband at Rainstrip. And being asked where she had been since she was married, she answered in many places, but particularly they were in Kent & workt at Rochester in harvest, and that she had not been since at Naseby, but afterwards said that about three weekes since they we[nt from] Layton to Naseby to drive her sheep to Layton, but that sh[e came] through Newport, but came neither by Dunstable nor Ho[ckliffe] where she never was before fryday last in her whole life. And further saith not. Capt coram me W Duncomb
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1679
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