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That George Hamond arlate upon a Sunday the sixth of January commonly called the twelfth day of Christmas in the year 1638 was absent from evening prayers and did not in the afternoon of that day go to his parish Church of Whalley or any other Church or Chapel to hear divine service but continued and was in the house of Henry Hamond arlate together with Robert Hamond and others and saith that he the arlate George Hamond did then and there play at shovelboard the greatest part of that afternoon; he this deponent knows the same to be true for he was present and was an eye witness of what he hath deposed and likewise saith that Thomas Whitehead and Thomas Jennings his this deponent’s contest were also at the same time present… That George Hamond is accounted to be a man of honest life and conversation and one that usually frequenteth his parish Church of Whalley of Chapel of Clitheroe upon Sundays and holy days.
That Christmas in the year of our Lord god 1638 arlate the certain day he cannot remember he this deponent coming into the house of Henry Hamond arlate saw George Hamond there playing at shovelboard with Robert Hamond and others present at the same time his this deponent’s precontest Thomas Bowker but whether Thomas Whitehead his this deponent’s contest was then present he cannot remember.