Edw Collins
ten that the defendant
Rose
did pay unto
Jeff Cuckoe
20li and 20li more to
Prudence
sister of the said
Jeff
for their several legacies given and bequeathed unto them by the last will and testament of their father
Jeff Cuckoe
deceased and saith that he this deponent hath seen acquittances under the several hands of the said
Jeff
and
Prudence
for the receipt of the said legacies by them and that this deponent hath also seen her acquittances under the hands of other the children of the said
Jeff Cuckoe
deceased for their legacies and further saith that the said defendant
Rose
did place her eldest son
Jn Cuckoe
with a tailor in Colchester and did put her son
Jeff Cuckoe
the elder to a shoemaker in the said town of Colchester and did put her son
Francis
apprentice to a tanner in Nayland and gave with him the sum of 8li and the said
Francis
ran away from his said master before he had served out his term and the said defendant
Rose
did put her son
Jeff Cuckoe
the younger apprentice with one
Purcase
a glover at Stistead and gave with him the sum of 5li but the said
Jeff
served not out his term with the said
Purcase
for afterwards the said
Jeff
was bound with one
Fearnes
another glover now dwelling at Earls Colne and from him the said
Jeff
ran away and at last his master
Fearne
had him again and put a pair of pot hooks on his neck and set him to work and then the defendant being offended with the said
Fearne
for so doing she sent word to
Fearne
that he should use the said
Jeff
as an apprentice ought to be used else she would make him to do it and thereupon the said
Fearne
took off the pot hooks from the said
Jeff
his neck and so soon as that was done the said
Jeff
ran away again running about the country first to London and then into Norfolk and there took to wife one
Sharpyms
(sic)
daughter a glover and after a while came from her and wrought in divers places about the country and the said defendant
Rose
being then willing to have the said
Jeff
live as he should do with his wife did at the request of this deponent load a horse with butter and cheese and sent him home with it and afterwards the said
Jeff
and his father in law
Sharpym
came both to the said
Rose
and borrowed of her 5li as the said
Rose
and the said
Sharpym
and
Jeff
told this deponent and after all this the said
Sharpym
being dead by a casualty without leaving his daughter any maintenance she being a lame woman and not able to make herself ready the said
Rose
willed her said son
Jeff
to come to her and to bring his daughter with him and she would keep him and the child but for the rest of the said children and the mother her brother which had the land and living of their father (the said
Rose
did say) should keep them if they would for she would not and so then the said
Jeff
the younger with his daughter came home to the said
Rose
and (by report) after he had been there a while he begat his said mother's maidservant with child whereupon the said
Rose
did throw both the said
Jeff
and the servant out of doors and saith that the said defendant
Rose
did set her said daughter
Prudence
to learn her book but what charge that was to the said
Rose
this deponent saith he knoweth not and saith that the said defendant
Rose
did bestow learning on the rest of her children that would take it all but on the said
Jeff Cuckoe
the younger who was the unruliest of them all though to say the truth there were none of them all of any good carriage or government and he lastly saith that the several acquittances now showed to him this deponent viz of
Thos Symonds
Jn Cuckoe
Prudence Lunt
Jeff Cuckoe
and
Rose Watts
(sic)
are the very same acquittances which he this deponent hath heretofore seen as aforesaid and more
Edw Collins