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<p n="124"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo85">Middlesex</rs>
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The several Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n124-1">Elizabeth Dorrell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ30">Widow</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n124-2">John Cummins</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n124-3">John Kelly</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n124-4">William<lb></lb>
Humphrey</rs>
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Thomas Taken and made on Oath before me<lb></lb>
one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ31">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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the 22nd. day of<lb></lb>
December 1781.</p>
<p n="125">This Informant Elizabeth Dorrell for herself saith That<lb></lb>
She is a Laundress and lives in a Dwelling in the Bull and Gate<lb></lb>
Yard in Holborn and that on Friday Morning last a Room in the<lb></lb>
Building in the said Yard (wherein was a large Quantity of wet<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
hung up to dry) was broke open and the Major part of the same<lb></lb>
was Taken and Carried away and saith That the same is the<lb></lb>
property of Sundry persons who Employs her this Informant to<lb></lb>
wash Linnen for them And these Informants <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n125-1">John Kelly</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n125-2">John Cummins</rs>
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for themselves severally say That on friday<lb></lb>
Morning last about the hour of 2 oClock They saw a Woman<lb></lb>
come from the Bull and Gate Yard aforesaid with a large Bundle<lb></lb>
in her Apron, That the said Woman was a Black Woman<lb></lb>
That upon Asking her what she had in her Apron She<lb></lb>
said, She Took in washing and that she had been to her<lb></lb>
Lodgings and was locked out, That these Informants them<lb></lb>
said They would see her to her Lodgings, and did see her to a<lb></lb>
House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo86">New Turn Hile Holborn</rs>
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where she said she then<lb></lb>
lodged, at which House She was let in by a person therein<lb></lb>
And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n125-3">William Humphrey</rs>
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Thomas<lb></lb>
for himself Saith That he lodges in a House Rented by Mrs.<lb></lb>
Brookes in New Turn Hile Holborn and that about 2 oClock<lb></lb>
in the Morning of friday last as he was in Bed he heard a Knocking<lb></lb>
at the door of the said House, That he got up and came down stairs<lb></lb>
and let in one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n125-4">Rachael Smith</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ32">Black woman</rs>
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who lodges in such<lb></lb>
house as he this Informant believes which Woman had in her<lb></lb>
Apron a large Bundle but this Informant does not know the<lb></lb>
Contents of such Bundle</p>
<p n="126"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n126-1">Eliz Dorrell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n126-2">John Cummings</rs>
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<p n="127">The Mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of Jno. Kelly<lb></lb>
W. H.Thomas</p>
<p n="128">Taken and Sworn the day and<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid before me}</p>
<p n="129"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n129-1">Chas. Triquet</rs>
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