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Door open & then went into her Masters Dressing Room
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& found that the Drawers had been broke
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Open & two
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Portmanteau opened but what was taken out of the
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said Drawers & Portmanteaus this Informant cannot
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tell-this Informt. then went up into the One pair
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of Stairs back Room & found that a Cabinet Etc
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Chest Broke Open & in the two pair of Stairs Rooms
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a Closet and a Mahogony Press.
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had
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broke open but
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was taken from thence or who were the persons who
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broke Open the same this Informant cannot tell
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And this Informant
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John Bird
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for himself saith
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that in the begining of December last 1772 a Person now
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present who calls herself Elizabeth Dechaund came
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to this Informants Shop in
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New Street
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in the Parish of
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Saint Martin in the Fields & Sold to this Informant
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a Ladys Gold plated Chain & a Gold Seal with a Milton's
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Head & the Barrs of a Pair of Garnet Earrings now
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produced & a Girdle Buckle part of which is also now
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produced that on Friday last about Six o'Clock in the
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Evening the said Elizabeth Dechaund came to this Informt
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and offered to Sale the Gold Enamelled Fish a Seal set
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in Gold the Handle of a Tambour Needle set in Gold
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& a Gold that all now produced & which are sworn to be
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the property of the other Informant
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Thomas De Grey
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Esquire
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upon which this Informant stopped her & carried her
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before the Justices.
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but the said Chair & Seal
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this Informant Sold to One of the Trade but what his Name is he
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doth not know
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And this Informant
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Richard Barnett
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for himself
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saith that he is a Constable of the Parish of Saint Anne
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Westminster
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that on Friday Night last about ten
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o'Clock he went with Mr. Carleton Clerk to the Magistrates
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at the Rotation officer in Litchfield Street to the House
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of a person now present who calls himself
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Gabriel
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Dechaund
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& by his
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direction took the said Gabriel in charge & brought him
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before the Magistrates that on the same Evening he
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went with a Search Warrant & searched the House of
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