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<p n="1233"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo791">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
The voluntary EXamination and Information of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1233-1">Mary Anderson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ269">Spinster</rs>
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Taken and made on Oath<lb></lb>
before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ270">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo792">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the 90th. day of July 1781</p>
<p n="1234">Who Saith That She very well knows <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1234-1">Elizabeth Carter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ271">Spinster</rs>
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and That on Sunday the 22nd. of July Instant She was<lb></lb>
in Company with her and a Man at the Boot Alehouse in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo793">Cross<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo794">Saint Giles in the fields</rs>
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That They had some Beer together<lb></lb>
and about Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon of the same day the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1234-2">Elizabeth Carter</rs>
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and the Man went from the said Alehouse to<lb></lb>
a Lodging room in the Dwelling house of one Mr. Shearing in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo795">Scotts<lb></lb>
Rents St. Giles in the Fields</rs>
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aforesaidThat after They had been<lb></lb>
together for near an hour the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1234-3">Elizabeth Carter</rs>
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came down<lb></lb>
Stairs in to the Street were this Informant was then Standing<lb></lb>
and Throwed a Watch into her this Informants Lap and<lb></lb>
said She had Taken it from the said Man And this<lb></lb>
Information saith That it was a Silver Watch with a Steal Chain<lb></lb>
and Sliver Seal And after They had Consulted together how<lb></lb>
they should dispose of such Watch They said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1234-4">Elizabeth Carter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Proposed to Take it to one Mrs. Brown in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo796">Field Lane</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
She said would Buy the SameThat about 9 o'Clock of<lb></lb>
the Sacae afternoon She this Informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1234-5">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Carter</rs>
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went together to the House of the said Mrs. Brown<lb></lb>
Carter Stood a few Yards distance and this Informant went<lb></lb>
into the House This Informant acquainted Mrs. Brown<lb></lb>
That She had a Watch to Sell - and the said Mrs. Brown<lb></lb>
asked her whose it was and she said it was her own<lb></lb>
Mrs. Brown then asked her what She asked for it this<lb></lb>
Informant Said a Guinea But She Refused to give her<lb></lb>
a Guinea But agreed to give her<del>his</del>
Fifteen Shillings<lb></lb>
for the said Watch which She did (that is to day) Four Shillings<lb></lb>
in Counter feit half pence and the remainder in Silver for the<lb></lb>
purchase of the said Watch After which the said Mrs. Brown asked<lb></lb>
this Informants if any body was with her For that She had, has a great<lb></lb>
many Switchers lately But if She had any body with her the Watch-<lb></lb>
Should near been Seen again for She would put it out of the way.<lb></lb>
immediately</p>
<p n="1235">Taken and Sworn the day and<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid before me}</p>
<p n="1236"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1236-1">Chas. Triquet</rs>
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<p n="1237">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1237-1">Mary Anderson</rs>
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