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Image 94 of 40212th March 1771


Middlesex To wit


The Information of Sarah Spicer< no role > Elizabeth Macauley
and Ann Smith< no role > Lodgers in the house of
Mr. Almand in Marybone Street Piccadilly
taken before me this 12. day of March 1771

Who being upon oath severally say and first the said Sarah Spicer< no role >
for herself says that she lodgers in the one Pair of Stairs in the
house of Mr Almand in Marybone Street near Piccadilly
says that Yesterday about 4 o Clock she left a great Quantity
of Linen and other things belonging to different People which she had
received to wash upon the Drawers in her room Iron'd ready
to be taken home to the different owners, says that sometime
after she was sent for and upon entering her room she found
that the aforesaid Linen Etc was tied up in Bundles in order
as this Deponent believes to be feloniously taken and carried
away, and the said Elizabeth Macauley< no role > for herself says that
Yesterday about 4 o Clock a Person now Present who calls
himself George Carey< no role > came to Mr Almands house aforesaid
and enquired for a Mistress Jones a Washerwoman that she
replied there was no such Person lived there that the said George
Carey
< no role > then went awayand the said Ann Smith< no role > for herself
says that Yesterday about a Quarter of an hour after four o Clock
she this Informant came home to her Lodgings which is in the
house of Mr Almand aforesaid that she knocked at Mrs. Spicersat thedoor
in order to get a Light, that a Person now present who calls
himself George Carey< no role > was in the room and came to the
door and took the Candle from this Informant and gave it
to another man who was then in the room with him, that this
Informant saw there was no light in the room she desired them
to give her the Candle again which they did. that about two
minutes after this Informant went down stairs and saw the
said George Carey< no role > holding the Street door in his hand to
present it being open [..]
[..] and furhter saith she doth verily believe and suspect that




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