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<p n="881"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo256">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n881-1">Sarah Spicer</rs>
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Elizabeth Macauley<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n881-2">Ann Smith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45017_occ172">Lodgers</rs>
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in the house of<lb></lb>
Mr. Almand in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo257">Marybone Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo258">Piccadilly</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45017_date48">12. day of March 1771</rs>
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<p n="882">Who being upon oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n882-1">Sarah Spicer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for herself says that she lodgers in the one Pair of Stairs in the<lb></lb>
house of Mr Almand in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo259">Marybone Street</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo260">Piccadilly</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that Yesterday about 4 o Clock she left a great Quantity<lb></lb>
of Linen and other things belonging to different People which she had<lb></lb>
received to wash upon the Drawers in her room Iron'd ready<lb></lb>
to be taken home to the different owners, says that sometime<lb></lb>
after she was sent for and upon entering her room she found<lb></lb>
that the aforesaid Linen Etc was tied up in Bundles in order<lb></lb>
as this Deponent believes to be feloniously taken and carried<lb></lb>
away, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n882-7">Elizabeth Macauley</rs>
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for herself says that<lb></lb>
Yesterday about 4 o Clock a Person now Present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n882-2">George Carey</rs>
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came to Mr Almands house aforesaid<lb></lb>
and enquired for a Mistress Jones a Washerwoman that she<lb></lb>
replied there was no such Person lived there that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n882-3">George<lb></lb>
Carey</rs>
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then went awayand the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n882-4">Ann Smith</rs>
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for herself<lb></lb>
says that Yesterday about a Quarter of an hour after four o Clock<lb></lb>
she this Informant came home to her Lodgings which is in the<lb></lb>
house of Mr Almand aforesaid that she knocked at Mrs. Spicers<del>at the</del>
door<lb></lb>
in order to get a Light, that a Person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n882-5">George Carey</rs>
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was in the room and came to the<lb></lb>
door and took the Candle from this Informant and gave it<lb></lb>
to another man who was then in the room with him, that this<lb></lb>
Informant saw there was no light in the room she desired them<lb></lb>
to give her the Candle again which they did. that about two<lb></lb>
minutes after this Informant went down stairs and saw the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n882-6">George Carey</rs>
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holding the Street door in his hand to<lb></lb>
present it being open<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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and furhter saith she doth verily believe and suspect that</p>
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