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aunte all or the moste parte of that estate which god should have 

 blessed them with at the time of his Death And allso in his 

 fatherly love to have ben help full to them from time to time 

 accordinge to his poore abillity After which time (y* the said 

 Complainaunt was gon from the house of this Defendaunt) about 

 a yeare This Defendaunte wife dyed and then the said Com- 

 playnaunte and his wife Came againe and lived w th this Deffend- 

 aunte as partners in ther sayd trade of Tyeringe about the space 

 of half a yeare duering which time this Defendaunte had in his 

 hand?£ the surarae of forty shillings of the Complaynaunt&s 

 mony and at the end of the said Halfe yeare & about the time of 

 the Complaynaunte depareture from this def tes house the sayd 

 Complaynaunte being Indebted vnto a Bruer the summe of three 

 pounds desiered this Defendaunt to pay it for him to the sayd 

 Bruer which sayd somm of three pounds this Defendaunte payed 

 for the sayd Complaynaunte accordingly but this def 1 was nev r 

 sithene repaide the said 3 11 . or any parte therof other then the 

 saz'd 40 s as aforsaid. and dueringe the sayd half yeare that the 

 Complaynaunt was with this Defendaunte as aforesayd this De- 

 fendaunte did buy into the shopp with his owne mony silvered 

 wyer and oth r Comodyties Concerninge theire trade to the vallue 

 of Ten pounds or theraboute for which the sayd Complainaunte 

 should by agreemente have payd halfe but did pay never a peny 

 And this Defendaunte absolutely denyeth that he did ever to his 

 knowledge offer vnto the sayd Complaynaunte in marryage* w th 

 his daughter the summe of Threescore pounds or any portion or 

 other somme whatsoever other than the sayd summe of ffifty 

 pounds at the end of the foresayd three yeares and vpon the 

 Considderation as before is expressed And this Defendante lyke- 

 wyse denyeth that he did ever promise to leave to the sayd Com- 

 plainaunte and his wife at his Death the some of two hundred 

 pounds or any other Certaine summe but as aforesayd did In- 

 tende to deale with the Complaynaunt and his wife at the time of 

 his Death as it is fittinge for a father to deale with his only Chylde 

 But this Defendaunte neither then Coulde nor yet Canne set dowe 

 any Certaynty thereof for that this def 1 . both then was and yet is 



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