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<p n="1430"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1077">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of Elizth. the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1430-1">John<lb></lb>
Marridge</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1078">Chapel Street</rs>
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New Town</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ397">Weaver</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mary the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1430-2">John Pressbury</rs>
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of Bakers<lb></lb>
Row <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1080">White Chapel</rs>
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Brushmaker and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1430-3">Elizabeth Oliphant</rs>
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of Princes Row Mill<lb></lb>
End new Town Widow Taken before us<lb></lb>
two of His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ398">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in and for th e said County the 21st<lb></lb>
day of May 1783</p>
<p n="1431">Who being on their Oaths say And first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1431-1">Elizabeth Marridge</rs>
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for herself saith That this<lb></lb>
Morning about ten o'Clock there was Stolen from<lb></lb>
out of the House of her Husband the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1431-2">John Marridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1081">Chapel Street</rs>
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aforesaid in<lb></lb>
the said County two Linen Shirts and one Shift<lb></lb>
which were folded up and lying on an Ironing<lb></lb>
Board in the Fore Parlour of said House and that<lb></lb>
the two Shirts and the Shift now produced are the<lb></lb>
property of her said Husband and the same that<lb></lb>
were Stolen as aforesaid</p>
<p n="1432">This Informant Mary Pressbury for herself saith That<lb></lb>
This Morning about ten o'Clock she saw the person<lb></lb>
now present who says his name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1432-1">John Owen</rs>
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come out<lb></lb>
of the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1432-2">John Marridge</rs>
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with a Bundle<lb></lb>
of Linen under his Arm and suspecting he had stole<lb></lb>
it she knocked at the Door which was open and<lb></lb>
Alarmed the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Family.</p>
<p n="1433">And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1433-1">Elizabeth Oliphant</rs>
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for herself<lb></lb>
saith that this Morning being in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1083">well Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said Hamlet and hearing a Cry of Stop Thief<lb></lb>
and seeing the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1433-2">John Owen</rs>
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Running and a<lb></lb>
Number of Persons after him she Stopped him<lb></lb>
when he immediately threw down the Shirts and<lb></lb>
Shift now produced.</p>
<p n="1434">Sworn the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written before us}</p>
<p n="1435"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1435-1">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1435-2">Saml Hawkins</rs>
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<p n="1436">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1436-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Marridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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<p n="1438">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1438-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Oliphant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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