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You the said Lawrence Leicester was drunk at the house of one Randle Burgess an alehouse keeper in Mobberley at which time you did quarrel with Humphrey Newton of Mobberley and you did cast a black pot at his head and cursed him, and did profanely swear... miscalling the said Humphrey and his wife and one Francis Newton, and you did stagger and fall being not able to stand (as it seemed to divers persons who were present)... That you the said Lawrence Leicester upon the 31st October last were in Wilmslow [the] most part of that day, resorting from one alehouse to another and drinking vizt in the several houses of Timothy Vineston, Ewen Warburton, and Elizabeth Bower alehouse keepers, in the company of Humphrey Newton of Fulshaw, Thomas Henshaw, James Wilsomecroft, John Hannet and others, and you did quarrel the same day with one Ralph Barrett of Wilmslow... That upon the 14th of December 1626 you the said Lawrence Leicester were brought by John Burge the constable before Mr Malloy dean of Chester one of his Majesty's justices of peace where and before whom you were bound to your good behaviour: yet after you were bound you went to the house of one Randall Burgess alehouse keeper in Mobberley, and there continued drinking a long time in company of William Newton Humphrey and John Newton John Davenport... and John Burgess and there the constable was made drunk, that he fell into a ditch by the way homeward, and being not able to go home was left by you the said Lawrence Leicester about 9 of the clock in the night at one Elizabeth Simcock's house to stay all night... That you the said Lawrence Leicester within this twelvemonth abused your wife, and have oftentimes or at least sometimes struck her, and miscalled her and used yourself very cruelly against her. And this is true public notorious and manifest... That you are accounted and taken to be a common alehouse haunter and quarreler; and do use to carry unlawful weapons about you; as a pocket dagger. And that upon the 28th of October aforementioned you drew it or did offer to draw it against one Humphrey Newton in the house of Randle Burgess aforesaid.