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About nine years ago, which was in the year 1714 to the best of his remembrance, he lived as an apprentice with John Jackson in the parish of St Peter's Ipswich, whose house was over against Mr Joseph Rand's in St Mary Keys parish in Ipswich at which time he remembers Mr Joseph Rand and Mary his now wife, whose maiden name was Goodrick, were said to be married together, and he remembers their cohabiting and living together as man and wife from that time... In the years 1719, 1720, 1721, 1722... he hath seen Samuel Hamblin of St Nicholas parish in the said town of Ipswich frequently go to the house of Joseph Rand in St Mary Keys parish in Ipswich, and there converse and keep company with Mary Rand, wife of Joseph Rand, and in the yard and comb shop belong[ing] to Joseph Rand's house, hath seen them together alone, and hath seen Hamblin kiss and caress Mary Rand frequently, and saith that in the said years he hath often seen them (Hamblin and Mary Rand) in a bedroom alone together at the sign of the Sun in St Stephen's Parish in Ipswich which was kept by Susanna Hornygill, widow, sister to Mary Rand, and particularly one afternoon about a year ago, and that about two years ago likewise on a bright moonlit night about nine of the clock this deponent going to the Sun alehouse in a back lane leading to the green yard, he saw Samuel Hamblin and Mary Rand, standing up against a post, she with her clothes up, and he close to her and upon sight of this deponent, she immediately dropped her coats and retired into her husband's Joseph Rand's back gate, and Hamblin along with her, and this deponent saith that upon Sunday the nineteenth day of April 1719 a little after two a clock in the afternoon Mr Rand being from home and the rest of the family with him except Mary Rand and William Goodrick her brother who was apprentice to Joseph Rand at that time, at which time Samuel Hamblin came past Joseph Rand's back gate, but thinking he was seen and observed he returned back and continued going and coming back and forwards four or five times, at length this deponent being upon the leads of his master's house, which overlooked or looked into Joseph Rand's yard, which is about 20 yards, he saw Mary Rand open the back gate very easily, and after that a pair of great gates which opened into a lane, and let Hamblin into Joseph Rand's yard, where he could and did see Hamblin and Mary Rand go into a shed, and see him take her about the waist and lay her down, and taking up her coats, put down his own breeches and laid upon her, where he saw him move when upon her, then see him rise, put up his breeches, and wipe his face, then taking her up they looked all about the yard to see if they had been observed, and then let him out of the yard, and this deponent saw him go out of the yard and walk homeward.