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said prrswaciones and promisses of the said deft, did not the said 

 Complt shortly after marry e w th her the said Marye declare the 

 truthe herein as you knowe verylie believe or haue Credybly hard. 

 5 /Item what parcells of goods or houshold stuff e did the defendt 

 promise to geue vnto the complainant in Marriadge w th his said 

 wiefe And what parcells of goodes did he geue him in Marriage 

 w th his said wyffe. did he not geue them these parcels (vizt.) 

 One ould ffetherbed, one oulde ffether boulster, A flocke boulster, 

 a thine greene Rugg, two ordanarie blancketts woven, two paire 

 sheetes, A dozine of napkines of Course Dyaptr, twoe short table 

 Clothes, six short Towelles & one longe one, An ould drawinge 

 table, two ould Joyned stooles, one Wainscott Cubberd, one 

 Twistinge wheele of woode, twoe paire of litle Scyssers, one ould 

 Truncke and a like ould Truncke./ One Bobbine box : And 

 what doe youe thincke in yo r Conscyence all these said parcelles 

 might be woorthe at the tyme when they weare deliuered by the 

 defendaunts appoyntm', vnto the plaintiffes declare the truthe 

 hearein at lardge./ 



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DEPOSITIONS. FIRST SET. 



[Ex parte Belott, 11 May, 1612. Written on paper sheets 12^4 X 15^4, 

 and attached to the preceding skin of interrogatories.] 



Depositions Captae apwd Westmonasterium vndecimo 

 die maij Ann° Regni Jacobi Regis Anglian &c decimo 

 et Scotw xlv t0 ex parte Stephanei Bellott qaaerentis 

 versus Christopherum Mountioye deiendentem 



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Johane Johnsone the wyffe of Thomas Johnsone of the parishe of 

 Elinge in the Countye of Middlesex Baskettmaker of the Age of 

 ffortye yeres or th r abouts sworne and examyned the daye and 

 yere abouesaid deposeth and say[th] 

 1 J To the ffirst Jnterrogatory this depone/it sayth she knoweth the 

 plaintiff and [hath] knowne him about Eight yeres./ and the deft 

 about Eight yeres./ 



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