Couldn't resist some more of the plot!
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....take and receive
all the rents and profitts of such Jointure estate dureing
the Complainants life for the said Defendant Maryes use
and for the maintenance of herselfe and children which
she then had by the Complainant and for noe other
use or purpose whatsoever and that itt was thereby
p(ro)vided that after such second seperac(i)on the Defendant
Mary should live with the said Defendant Prestwood her
father but if he would not consent thereto then she was
to live at her Jointure house the Compainant leavinge
there all the household goods thereunto belonging for the
Defendant Maryes use and under another p(ro)visoe that after
such seperate maintenance the Defendant Mary should
not run or incurr any debt on the Complainant soe as to
bring him into any trouble or molestatc(i)on whatsoever by
meanes thereof and the Complainant thereby Covenanted
that after his debts payd hee would raise twoe thousand
five hundred pounds as an Addic(i)on to the porc(i)on of the
daughters begotten or to be begotten on the body of the
said Defendant Mary which said twoe thousand five
hundred pounds together with the fifteen hundred pounds
thentofore settled to be payd att their respective ages of
one and twenty yeares or dayes of marriage which
should first happen Provided that they marryed with the
consent of their said father and mother and of the said
Defendants yard and Prestwood and if either marryed
without such consent then the porc(i)on and share of such
person was to be to the use of the heires and Assignes of the
Complainant And for the better performance of the before
menc(i)oned Articles the Complainant Covenanted to make
further Assurance within three monethes then after As by
the said Articles a counterparte thereof to which the
Complainant referred himselfe might more fully Appeare AND
the Complainant did further settforth that notwithstanding he
had kindly reced* the said Defendant Mary and forgiven her
all things past and hoped for an amnedment and that she
would have either lived contentedly amd happily att
home with him or att her said Jointure estate yet without* there is no contraction mark here, but I think this would read ‘received’
................................................... yet without
the least provoca(i)on given her by the Complainant or any
Cause whatsoever in lesse then two monethes time when his
present maiestyes fleet* layd att Torbay in the yeare one
thousand six hundred ninety and six haveing by such her
such first elopement gotten acquaintance with one Manly
and other Seamen belonging to the said fleet she invited
them and entertained them att the said Compl(ainant)s house
against his consent and that by contrivance of the said
Defendant Mary and her maide servant and other
confederates the Complainant was locked upp in a chamber
in his owne dwelling house and was there confined for
considerable time untill by the contrivance of one Mr
Stephens the Complainants neighbour and some of his
servants on Complainant made to them out att* window the
Complainant was helped and Released out att* window
and by such meanes escaped and was thereupon forced
to leave his dwelling house but the Defendant Mary his
wife with the offices and seamen continued still in the
house where she behaved herselfe very undecently and
wasted and consumed severall sheep hogsheads of
beare and sider and other provisions of and belonging
to the house and kept the Complainant out of his house
and refused him entrance and lay and cohabited with
such souldiers in the Complainants house And that in
August one thousand six hundred six hundred* ninety
and six the said Defendant Mary caused severall goods* the scribe has actually written ‘freet’ here, but ‘fleet’ later on
* both these ‘att’ could be ‘all’; the scribe tends to cross double ‘l’s the same as double ‘t’s, netiher of which make a lot of sense here!
* the scribe has written ‘six hundred’ here twice
