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He is very well acquainted with John Athill and remembers him and his wife Elizabeth living in St Paul's parish in Norwich for five or six years before he left Norwich (which was upwards of two years since); that he is by trade a worsted weaver of a light brown complexion and middle stature, and lives now he believes in London for that he saw him there on Tuesday the second day of September in the year of Our Lord Christ 1707 now running and drank with him there the same day at one Robert Edee's house situated in Rosemary Lane joining to the Sign of the Windmill, who is a relation of this deponent, and afterwards in Shoreditch just before he came to Norwich.
He very well know John Athill and Elizabeth his wife and was often in his company whilst he lived at Norwich in St Paul's parish, that they were always known, taken and reputed to be lawful man and wife and as such they did live and cohabit together during the time this deponent was acquainted with them, which was about four years before he left Norwich, and that they had three or four children begotten and born between them, and that John Athill went from Norwich about two years, he believes, ago, and lives now, he supposes, in London where he saw him and drank with him on the second day of September last, at one Robert Edee's house in Rosemary Lane in company with his precontest William Howard, afterwards at Bedlam, and several other places... John Athill is by trade a worsted weaver, of a light brown complexion and middle stature.