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That you the said John Holden hath been for these three last years much given to bad and drunken company keeping, and have been associated with drunken company at alehouses, and have continued several times, several nights, days, and hours drinking strong beer and ale and taking tobacco with them in the same till you have been overseen to your great discredit and evil example of others… That you have within the time aforesaid publicly said that you would excuse yourself to be admitted into holy orders and would serve the Cure at Haslingden and thereupon took liberty to preach or to publicise god's holy word in an alehouse in Haslingden one Goody Jackson's house to the scandal of God's word and the Profession of a Minister… That you the said John Holden were drunk at Blackburn the first Wednesday in August last, and on the day after St Bartholomew's last in Haslingden, and the week after at Leigh, and you offered a book to pledge for… to one Robert Gregory to bring more ale.