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On the 3d of November last past being Monday at night there came one Thomas Buxton a blacksmith and one Francis Smith to the informant's house and asked for one Mary Underwood, to which they replied she was not there. Buxton and Smith fell a-swearing and cursing, saying, God damn them, she was there, and so run up the chambers and broke open the door and not finding Underwood there, they fell abusing the informant Ann Davise and threw her down the stairs and got the informant's periwig and came down of the chamber with it, and then fell on the informant John Lane and broke a stick about him, as also the pots and lantern and threw the lantern on the fire, after they had broke it. And then went out of his and the informant, endeavouring to make the doors fast to keep them out, then they brake all his windows, and came again to the door and forced open the door and came in and fell upon the informant again, swearing and damning that they would be the death of him like an old rogue as he was, and for that he had whores in the house they would have them, and seeing he would not let them have them, they would lay him at the fire's back and burn him and so endeavouring to burn him he with much ado escapt them.
[Joint statement with John Lane]