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<p n="573">Door open & then went into her Masters Dressing Room<lb></lb>
& found that the Drawers had been broke<del>n</del>
Open & two<lb></lb>
Portmanteau opened but what was taken out of the<lb></lb>
said Drawers & Portmanteaus this Informant cannot<lb></lb>
tell-this Informt. then went up into the One pair<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of Stairs back Room & found that a Cabinet Etc<lb></lb>
Chest Broke Open & in the two pair of Stairs Rooms<lb></lb>
a Closet and a Mahogony Press.<del>had</del>
broke open but<lb></lb>
was taken from thence or who were the persons who<lb></lb>
broke Open the same this Informant cannot tell</p>
<p n="574">And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n574-1">John Bird</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that in the begining of December last 1772 a Person now<lb></lb>
present who calls herself Elizabeth Dechaund came<lb></lb>
to this Informants Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45020_geo246">New Street</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
Saint Martin in the Fields & Sold to this Informant<lb></lb>
a Ladys Gold plated Chain & a Gold Seal with a Milton's<lb></lb>
Head & the Barrs of a Pair of Garnet Earrings now<lb></lb>
produced & a Girdle Buckle part of which is also now<lb></lb>
produced that on Friday last about Six o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Evening the said Elizabeth Dechaund came to this Informt<lb></lb>
and offered to Sale the Gold Enamelled Fish a Seal set<lb></lb>
in Gold the Handle of a Tambour Needle set in Gold<lb></lb>
& a Gold that all now produced & which are sworn to be<lb></lb>
the property of the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n574-2">Thomas De Grey</rs>
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<interp inst="LMOBPS45020_n574-2" type="surname" value="Grey"></interp>
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Esquire<lb></lb>
upon which this Informant stopped her & carried her<lb></lb>
before the Justices.<del>but the said Chair & Seal<obscured></obscured>
</del>
<lb></lb>
this Informant Sold to One of the Trade but what his Name is he<lb></lb>
doth not know<lb></lb>
And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n574-3">Richard Barnett</rs>
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<interp inst="LMOBPS45020_n574-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
for himself<lb></lb>
saith that he is a Constable of the Parish of Saint Anne<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45020_geo247">Westminster</rs>
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that on Friday Night last about ten<lb></lb>
o'Clock he went with Mr. Carleton Clerk to the Magistrates<lb></lb>
at the Rotation officer in Litchfield Street to the House<lb></lb>
of a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n574-4">Gabriel<lb></lb>
Dechaund</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45020_geo248">Cambridge</rs>
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Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45020_geo249">St. James</rs>
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& by his<lb></lb>
direction took the said Gabriel in charge & brought him<lb></lb>
before the Magistrates that on the same Evening he<lb></lb>
went with a Search Warrant & searched the House of</p>
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