(water damaged)
next is the examination of
Abbott
neighbour of the
knowing her to be sick did
Agnes
to see how she did
upon a wednesday
in lent last past and otherwise
upon which wednesday she saith
and being come thither she found the said
Agnes Bieston
widow lying on a pallet by the fireside in the parlour of the dwelling house and with her mrs
Church
and one
Sparrowe's
wife here present
that kept the said mrs
Bieston
in her sickness but whether mrs
Pierson
her contestis was there before her coming yea or no she remembereth not and she saith that the said
Wm Bieston
being then and there in the said parlour in the said morning about eight or nine of the clock as she remembereth kneeling down upon his knees by the said pallet spake to his said mother and as she remembereth did ask her blessing weeping to see her sick whereupon the said
Agnes Bieston
spake unto him as forthwith or like
viz"be of good cheer for all is thine both with the house and without" and she saith that the said mrs
Bieston
being then moved by mrs
Church
and mrs
Pierson
to give the said
Joan Payne
her daughter something the said
Agnes Bieston
said as followeth
that she had 20li but the other day and saith that the said
Agnes Bieston
widow was during the premises of perfect mind and memory for
this examinant and the rest of the women then being present this examinant the said mrs
Church
mrs
Peerson
goodwife
Sparrowe
that this examinant continued with the said
Agnes
until she died which was about
but at about that time
she remembereth not
and saith that she remembereth the bell
toll for the said
Agnes Bieston
before she died
in the morning a great while before she died and saith that the said
Agnes
did speak to the said
Wm
for some these words afore deposed by her before the tolling of the bell and that she had no cloth pulled over her afore she was departed