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At His Majesties Superiour Court of Judicature Court of
Assize and General Goal Delivery held at Cambridge in and for the
County of Middlesex on the first Tuesday of August in the Twenty ninth
Year of the Reign of George the Second by the Grace of God of Great
Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.

The Jurors for the said Lord the King upon their Oath present That
Phillis a Negro woman of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex
Spinster Servant of John Codman late of Charlestown aforesaid
Gentleman not having the Fear of God before her Eyes but of her Malice
forethought contriving to deprive the said John Codman her said Master
of his Life and him feloniously and Traiterously to kill and murder,
She the said Phillis on the thirtieth Day of June last at Charlestown
aforesaid in the Dwelling house of the said John there did of her
Malice forethought willfully feloniously and Traiterously put a Deadly
Poison called Arsenick into a Vial of water and thereby did then and
there Poison the same Water----and that the said Phillis knowing the
Water aforesaid to be so poisoned did then and there feloniously
willfully traiterously and of her Malice forethought put one spoonfull
of the Same Water so poisoned into a Pint of the Said John's
Watergruel and thereby poison the Same Watergruel----And that the said
Phillis did then and there of her malice forethought feloniously
willfully and traiterously in manner as aforesaid poison the
Watergruel aforesaid, with a felonious and Traiterous Intent and
Design that the said John her said master then being should then and
there eat the Same Watergruel so poisoned and thereby be poisoned
killed & murdered----And that one Elizabeth Codman not knowing the
Watergruel aforesaid to be so poisoned then and there Innocently gave
the Same Watergruel so poisoned as aforesaid to the said John to eat--

And that the said John then and there being the said Phillis's Master
and being altogether ignorant of the Watergruel aforesaid's being
poisoned as as[2] aforesaid and Suspecting no Evil did then and there
eat the same Watergruel so poisoned as aforesaid----And that the said
Phillis then and there was feloniously and traiterously present with
the said Elizabeth & John knowing of and consenting unto the said
Elizabeth's giving him the said John the Watergruel aforesaid so
poisoned as aforesaid and his eating the same as aforesaid----And that
the said John by mea