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' • • • .'/ / . was a labouring Man, X have worked with him fometimes.O, Did you fee his Wife;Wright. Not till the nefct Day. I had only a'e/afher, I didnot-care to fee her.Q. Did yOu lit up with him all'that Night ?VYright. Ves.Q; Did he appear to be difordered in Liquor I, :■ Q; When they came into the Room, did he com ■ plain to them, of what the Prifoner had done f Duck. Yes , very much..Q. Where not they fighting before ?Duck. No-— tire Prifoner was very muchWright. He was very fober all Night.nbQ. Did he talk fenlible'?.Wright. He lard but little; but what he faid he talked lenfibly. , •Did his Wife and he agree, or did they difa-greeiWeight. They ufed to difagree fomerimes—r-I don’t know that he ever offered any Violence to herbefore. O' . » » * .Prifoner. I did not know that I fhould do it till juft that I went about it, for I was out of my fen-fes, I was half mad. My Wffe faid the Devil was coming, and that frightened Jfre, and fo we went, to fighting. . I afked her ‘for u Halfpenny for a Halfpenny Candle, and file would not give it me,, fo I was in the dark, or elfevire jafed to have a lights I did itfinnocently. Gui^yJ Death.beat Mullins was beating, him upon the Bed when the Company went into'tile Room.Q. Were they drunk or fober I •Duck. The-Profeeutor-.wai the drpnkeft of thetwo;-. • ,.. : - .; , *Oliver Pen. I don’t. know' the Prifoner, I fhould kiiaw-the Soldier if was to fee him —■ that is he; They paid me for their'. Lodging, that’s all I know of the Matter.• Q. Was there any C om plain t made when'youwent up ? . • ,■ '.Pern Yes; the Soldier, faid(the Prifoner wanted to do fo arid fo to him, and fo they fell p’fighting.- • Qi What was thtrQccafipn of their quarrelling ?Ben-Reeaufe the Prifoner: Warifed to be. concerned with him.Qb Who did he fay that, to f Q -5 Pen. To all the Whole Room for what I know. LaJked the So]didf,|aqd foidas youare Man of Ma-John. Twyford, Ctement Danes, wasditutttydfoch a Tlihg .he adfed to. you.indidted for that he not hifcvhig the fear of God, c. upon one John Muffins,-%ickedly, unlawfully and felonioufly did make an Jjftault, and the deteilable Sin of Buggery did commit and.do, which is not fit to be named amongy ChriHiians, againft the form of the Statute, C.£.John Mullins. Some tune in June as I was going along near the Fleet Market, there was a Prefs-Garig coming along andTthe Gentleman at the B ar ilooking at ’ them ^ Said hq, Brother Soldier,'1they will riot prefs any iriffimyfi; yes 1 faid,. I believe they will prefs any Thing: he faid he loved a Soldier as he loved his Life, and that he wasa Sea Officer, and afked where there was a Pot of good Beer, and delired me to go- and drink with him.We went to the Plough by the Fleet Market, and he would not let me pay any thing: he faid he was going to- the Talbot Inn in the Strand to a particular Acquaintance of his, and defired me to go with him; after mu ch Perfuaiion I went; he afked me to lie the're; I told him I muft go home, but he prefl’ed* a a -a •«a a f ^ t ^ 'I • .{for you are not a BoyJ without you was as willingas'the other ? ‘And .then fie feid he had. not- 'enteredfits Body1; then (aid 1, you aflaulted one another, and muft.-le^iye ic-to the- Court;.then I found they• Wefe both. forfwoma for they muft both of them be wiUthg alike,* or. jglfe.. there could not be any' tiling done... ' v ■; • ••In order to cohyifj a Perfoo upon an Indictmentfor Sodomy, the Ait of Parliament requires that Emiffion fhould be proved as well as Penetration fothe Jury acquitted the Prifoner ; and he gave Bail,for his Appearance next Seffions at the-Q.fo-Bdiley* in order to take his Trial for an AfTault with an Intent to commit Sudomy.and pretty mucn rn liquor, and growing neepy, *1 went into Bed, and when he thought I was afleep he began his Tricks upon me ; I am almoft afham-ed to tell-he put his —-into myFundament, and fo hard it awaked me. 1 afkedhim what he was-at, and faid he was not a Gentleman ; then we began to quarrel t and I bein ftronger than him turned him off, and then fel o’beating of him, and we were both carried . to the Watch-noufe. In the Morning he faid, Brother Soldier, you had better make this up; be faid he had not much Money about him, but he would give me half a Crown, and he told me I mult fay that I was in Liquor, and did not know what Ifaid.Did you fay before the Juft ice that you was in Liquor ?Mullins. Yes. _ _Q. And did you fay to the Juftice that the Complaint you had madet^o the Conllable was falfe;Mullins. -No pi faid it was not all true.^ Didmot you declare ofyour own Accord that you was forry for what you have done, and that you wasdrunk ?Mullins. No, I did not, I faid I was in Liquor.Robert Duck. I lay in the next Room ; Muffins refufed to go to Bed, at the Perfuation of the Prifoner he did ap to bed : when they had - been in Bed about a quarter of an Hour, Mullins cried out very loud, what are you for, and' made a great Oath, and faid, you are in my f undament, and then they: ' F O R, E l G N . -‘N E'.- W-' S.Venice, Julyi*. The Senate feeiris to betaken up of late with divers important Affairs ; but notwithftariding this great Hurry oCBidinefsthey found Time enough to iflue Orders-for publick Prayers to obtain Rain; Accordingly the -iniricu-lous Image of the bluffed Virgin, painted by St. Luke himfelf, was expos’d to publick .View in St. Mark’s Church, and Proceffions were made to it, and at laft it has rain’d very plentifully.-'Tortona, July 8. The Auftrian and Pjed-montefe having left Novi, the Spaniards march'd towards the Right, and have made themfelves Mailers of Serravalla, by which they have open’d their Way to Placentia. The Army of Count Sculemberg is at prefent encamp’d between the laft: Place and Alexandria. The Spaniards have taken Poffeffion of the advanced Polls of Rivaka, which the Auftrians abandoned. On the 5th the King of Sardinia arriv’d at the Camp of Count Sculemberg, and, ’tisfaid, demanded forne Troops to reinforce the Garrifons of Tortona and Alexandria; but the Count defir’d to be excufed, becaufe he had not enough to protedt the Dominions of the Queen. v DWe are apprehenfive of being befieg’d every Day,and upon that Account have lent away all unnecef-fary People. The Infant Den Philip, upon his .Arrival at Aqui, publifhed a Manifefto, whereift1 .1 i * r 1 r 1 /* ^ fT ' \ ' f fell 0‘fighting, then my Mailer and Miftrefs andS' - . ' , J • . - •five Or Tix ben tlemen who were dnnkmg in TheHoufe camehe declares himfelf lawful Heir to the Territories in Italy formerly poffefs’d bySpain, and promifesthofe who will acknowledge him as luch, to exempt them from all Taxes for ten Years, to Confirm them in their antient Privileges, and excufe them from the Oath of Fidelity which thev have taken to the Queen of Hungary and the King of Sardinia.From Meforitz in Great Poland, July p.His Majeity has confirm’d: the Sentence of the Court Martial held for enquiring into the Exceffes committed by the Uhlans in Lagow, in-the Territory of Brandenbourg, when.^p. Uhlan who had killeda Subjedt wais Ihqr, a Caej^in was degraded, and four Uhlans received, a |foiidred%affies each.lt;” C.'
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