Personally appeared before us Justices assign'd to keep the Peace in said County Mary Walker who being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty ^God^ made Oath to the Following Information That is to say that about Three Weeks ago this Deponent was at the House of Thomas Harrison ^Senr^ where she heard a certain Stephen Burges say that it was no matter if the King's Forces were to come & put us ^them^ all to the sword for it was what they deserved meaning the Peop[le] of this state as this Deponent believ'd and further this Deponent sayeth not—