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This deponent being as a helper to Goodwife Harrison at the Rose and Crown in Briston and sometime in the latter end of hayseal last past but cannot remember the certain time being set by the fire a rocking of the cradle Richard Mosse and John Warnes a witness in this cause were drinking together in the same room and amongst other discourse Richard Mosse said that John Athow was the father of Barbara Brown's base child and that he should keep it, which words were spoken in thee hearing of this deponent and Warnes... John Athow came to this respondent and told her that he would force her to come upon which she came, and that she is not of kin or related to John Athow and that this respondent has not been promised anything but hopes that Athow will satisfy her for her time and trouble and further cannot answer... She hath heard that Richard Mosse... was a hired constable but that he did not serve a warrant upon Athow when he spoke the words libellate for that Athow was not present and further cannot answer.
Some time in hayseal last past but the certain time this deponent cannot remember this deponent and Richard Mosse and Mary the wife of John Peirceson a witness in this cause being drinking together at the Rose and Crown in Briston, Richard Mosse said that John Athow... was the father of Barbara Brown's base child and that he should keep it, which words were spoken in the hearing of this deponent and Mary and further cannot depose... He this respondent was cited to appear at court and did not come of his own accord, and that he is not of kin or related to John Athow and that he has not been promised anything but hopes that Goodman Athow will pay him for his time and journey and further cannot answer… Richard Mosse... was as this respondent has heard a hired constable for Briston but that he did not serve a warrant when he spoke the words libellate for Athow... was not in company and further cannot answer... That when the words were spoken it was sometime in hayseal last past as he hath before deposed but cannot remember the particular time, and that the words were spoken at the Rose and Crown in Briston this respondent and Mary the wife of John Peirson being altogether in the room as this respondent hath likewise before deposed and further cannot answer.