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That in case the said Elizabeth Carrington do at some times utter and speak somewhat unadvised or scandalous speeches... yet these words or speeches do not proceed from her by reason of any distemper of drinking or drunkenness but only from distempered passions occasioned by the weakness of her brain, and other distemperature of her with sickness and infirmities women are subject unto hath brought upon her, so that she is neither to be presented then punished for uttering of such words... The neighbours and friends of the said Elizabeth Carrington who are daily conversant with her, and do know her life and conversation can testify upon their oaths, that divers times within the five years last past, the said Elizabeth Carrington hath been taken with sudden fits that she hath uttered also vain and distasteful words against some of her nearest and dearest neighbours and friends, against whom she did bear neither hatred nor malice, when as it was well known unto those who heard her, that she was not then drunk, neither was drink the cause that produced such effects, but only the distemperance and weakness of her brain, being ill affected and diseased, and that Elizabeth Carrington is not a common drunkard nor so accounted amongst her neighbours and acquaintances.