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how he come to beat a woman. He came out of his house, & seized my throat, I seized his hair, We both fell, & beat each other, & abused each other & made a noise; & thereupon the prisoner, whose house is about as far fm the place as the length of this room, broke push’d aside a wooden bar of his own Window, & came out to us – He brought in his hand a stick of which this is a fragment, [apparently a small Whangy,] and broke it over me. Then another man, a