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One day [before] Christmas last and to the best of this deponent's remembrance for the time betwixt [Martinmas] and [Christmas] Edward and Elizabeth came to this deponent's house, [being] an innhouse in Middlewich and one William [Steele] bayliff with them, and about eleven [or twelve] a clock at night they two called for a room to themselves until morning and one [of] this deponent's [servants] his contest Sara Blackburne shewed them a [chamber] where she left them together and they there lay together till morning upon the bed but under the bedclothes having their own clothes on and [no] company with them till towards morning that the said [servant?] went into them, and they did behave themselves together while they were there as man and wife and were after verily suspected and reported by those that well knew them and observed their behaviour to have been so together then and before that time about a quarter of a year.
One day before Christmas last past, Edward Lamskin and Elizabeth now [___] and William Steel came to this deponent's master's [house in] Middlewich and when it was far in the night he [Ed]ward asked this deponent where they might have a [chamber for] Elizabeth to lie down on till morning. And [___] this deponent lighted them into a room and they [lay] down together in their clothes upon the bed and this deponent left [them] together and took down the candle, and they [___] were so together till morning.
One time about or betwixt Martinmas and Christmas last past this deponent being a bailiff in the county court at the entreaty of Edward Lamskin went along with him to Middlewich to arrest some goods of William Yates at the suit of Elizabeth, and Elizabeth met them there and they three were together in a parlour at Bernard Percivall's house very late sitting up, and at last this deponent went into a bed that was in the parlour, and Edward and Elizabeth sat still in the same room and this deponent fell asleep and when he wakened again being towards morning as he thought they two were still talking together and at last this deponent heard Elizabeth say she would go lie down upon a bed and thereupon she and Edward went out together and (as this deponent thinketh) above stairs. And when [this] deponent got up in the morning he went to look after them [and] found her upon a bed in one room and him walking in another room and as this deponent thinketh not the next room. At that time this deponent asked her if they [_______] together and she denied to this deponent that they [____] this deponent verily believeth that they were not then [____] for that she persisted to this deponent that she was no[t ____] seal an acquittance at that time by the name of [____] Tramlowe, but this deponent believes that they are so[_____]ed together.