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(The Common wealths dayes) 26

      There being warrants all over ye: west Rydeing to take mee
      and the Constable having the warrant in his pockett told
mee of it, and said yt: hee could take mee but hee was loath to trouble
mee, and hee stayed wth mee at a meetting, and after I passed away
Northwards, and there were no friends, and sometimes I laid out



all night though in ye: winter season; and I came in my travels to a
house being weary; and bid the woman bring mee some meat &
Milke or creame if shee had any, and shee said shee had none, I
was moved to aske her for it though I did not matter for it, and there
was a litle child laid his hands on a churne in which there was a
great deale of creame, and plucked it down before my face, and it runne
like a poole in the floore of ye: house, and ye: woman fell a Blessing



her, and beatting the child; and so I passed away being at night
in ye: winter three or four dayes before yt: time called Christmas when
it ^did snow and blow and so was out all ye: cold night, and this was
in yorkshire; And thus the truth brought ye: truth to light.