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                <title>Mary Stringer: The Examination of Mary Stringer the wife of Moses Stringer of Villers Street in York builders Chymist practitioner in physick 28 June 1698</title>
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                <p rend="center" xml:id="par1">The Examina<choice><orig><hi rend="overline">c</hi></orig><reg>ti</reg></choice>on of Mary Stringer the wife of Moses Stringer <lb xml:id="l1"/>of Villers street in York buildings Chymist Practition<choice><orig><hi rend="superscript">r</hi></orig><reg>er</reg></choice> in <lb xml:id="l2"/>physick 28 Iune 1698</p>
                
                <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par2">She sayth that her said husband had an Exchecq<choice><orig><hi rend="superscript">r</hi>.</orig><reg>uer</reg></choice> bill <lb xml:id="l3"/>of one M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Walford <choice><abbr>abo<hi rend="superscript">t</hi>.</abbr><expan>about</expan></choice> <del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">h</add>alf a year ago and paid to <space dim="horizontal" unit="chars" extent="8"/> <lb xml:id="l4"/>who lives in Southwark and sells Furrs to make Hatts and <lb xml:id="l5"/>that <choice><abbr>abo<hi rend="superscript">t</hi>.</abbr><expan>about</expan></choice> 5 or 6 weeks ago (as she thinks) as her said husband <lb xml:id="l6"/>(as he told her) had an Exchecq<choice><orig><hi rend="superscript">r</hi>.</orig><reg>uer</reg></choice> bill of one M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Mills of Stafford<choice><abbr><hi rend="overline">sh</hi></abbr><expan>shire</expan></choice> <lb xml:id="l7"/>for physick which two bills were 5<hi rend="superscript"><hi rend="overline">ll</hi></hi> bills and that her said <lb xml:id="l8"/>husband put away the last of these bills to M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <space dim="horizontal" unit="chars" extent="6"/> <lb xml:id="l9"/>Souls man in Cannon street who paid it to one or two more <lb xml:id="l10"/>but then the <choice><sic>noat</sic><corr>note</corr></choice> being worn as passed on the
                    
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                    backside in <choice><abbr>y<hi rend="superscript">e</hi></abbr><expan>the</expan></choice> foalds where it was returned back to her husband and she <lb xml:id="l11"/>shewed i<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">t</add> to a Goldsmith M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <space dim="horizontal" unit="chars" extent="5"/> in Fleetstreet who said it was <unclear reason="hand" cert="high">good</unclear> <lb xml:id="l12"/>all but the 5<hi rend="superscript">s</hi>. Interest upon it and afterwards she put it off to a <choice><abbr>Gen<hi rend="overline">t</hi></abbr><expan>Gentleman</expan></choice> <lb xml:id="l13"/>on Ludgate hill M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. <space dim="horizontal" unit="chars" extent="4"/> at the 1<hi rend="superscript">s</hi> or 2<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> shop of the right hand <lb xml:id="l14"/>a Mercers Shop <choice><abbr>abo<hi rend="superscript">t</hi>.</abbr><expan>about</expan></choice> 3 weeks ago and since <choice><abbr>y<hi rend="superscript">t</hi>.</abbr><expan>that</expan></choice> time she and her husb<choice><orig><hi rend="superscript">d</hi>.</orig><reg>and</reg></choice> <lb xml:id="l15"/>have heard nothing of the bill and that <choice><abbr>w<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>.</abbr><expan>when</expan></choice> his last bill was returned <lb xml:id="l16"/>to her husband as above one m<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Butler being told of it by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. <lb xml:id="l17"/>mollins an Iron Factor in the old Change desired to see it and offer<choice><orig><hi rend="superscript">d</hi>.</orig><reg>ed</reg></choice> <lb xml:id="l18"/>to put it off for 4<hi rend="superscript"><hi rend="overline">ll</hi></hi>. 10<hi rend="superscript">s</hi>. if her husband would lend him 20<hi rend="superscript">s</hi>. thereof upon a <lb xml:id="l19"/><choice><sic>Noat</sic><corr>Note</corr></choice> but the <choice><abbr>Exam<hi rend="superscript">t</hi>.</abbr><expan>Examinant</expan></choice> told her husband that she believed it was a <lb xml:id="l20"/>good one and thereupon carryed it to the Goldsmith in Fleetstreet <lb xml:id="l21"/>to have his opinion as is abovemen<choice><orig><hi rend="overline">c</hi></orig><reg>ti</reg></choice>oned and that besides the <lb xml:id="l22"/>two bills above men<choice><orig><hi rend="overline">c</hi></orig><reg>ti</reg></choice>oned she doth not know that her husband <lb xml:id="l23"/>hath <choice><abbr>re<hi rend="overline">ced</hi></abbr><expan>received</expan></choice> or payed away any others</p>
                
                <p rend="indent40" xml:id="par3">Mary Stringer</p>
                
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