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<p n="2341"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1779">Middlesex</rs>
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THE Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2341-1">Elizabeth Myers</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1780">Betts's Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1781">Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ669">Widow</rs>
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Taken this 27th. Day of September 1783 before me<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ670">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="2342"> Who being upon Oath saith that on Friday the Twenty ninth day of last<lb></lb>
August one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-1">John Wycomb</rs>
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(a prisoner now present) and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-2">Mary<lb></lb>
Williams</rs>
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applied to her this Informant as Man and Wife to Let them a ready<lb></lb>
Furnished room and<del>for</del>
which she agreed with them to do<lb></lb>
and let them a Back Garrell at the Rate of Two Shillings Por<lb></lb>
Week. and received form the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-3">John Wycomb</rs>
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One Shilling<lb></lb>
as Earnest. That they then took immediate possession thereof<lb></lb>
and Continued in the same as Man and wife until Wednesday<lb></lb>
the nineteenth of September Inst. on the morning of which day<lb></lb>
about six O'Clock she was rang up by the said a <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-4">Mary Williams</rs>
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who upon Informants opening the door to her said she supposed<lb></lb>
her husband would be frightened at<del>her</del>
Staying out all night but<lb></lb>
having been taken Ill bet Mile End she was obliged to Stay there<lb></lb>
all night. That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-5">Mary Williams</rs>
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then went up Stairs<lb></lb>
unto the Garret where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-6">John Wycomb</rs>
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then was That<lb></lb>
he Wycomb soon after came down Stairs and went out as did the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-7">Mary Williams</rs>
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about Eight. That the said John Wycomb<lb></lb>
returned again about noon and asked her if his wife was at Home when<lb></lb>
She told him She was not. That Wycomb then went up Stairs<lb></lb>
and after Staying some Little time came down again went out and<lb></lb>
returned again in about half an hour went up stairs and foned<lb></lb>
open the door furth a poker taken out of a Lodgers Room on the same Floor (which had been Locked by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-8">Mary Williams</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who had the Key in her pocket) as she has since been informed and<lb></lb>
verily believes. That about Ten Minutes after he Wycomb came<lb></lb>
down Stairs more Softly then he was used to do and Informant<lb></lb>
being Washing in the Yard heard him go along <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1782">the Passage</rs>
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went to look after him at which time he had got to the street<lb></lb>
door with the Box (now produced) on his Back. Whereupon<lb></lb>
Informant asked him if he was going to move when he<lb></lb>
Answered not yet. That he there went out and went away.<lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2342-9">Mary Williams</rs>
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returned between Eight and nine<lb></lb>
O Clock in the Evening and upon Informants telling her that her<lb></lb>
Husband had been up stair and taken away at Box she exclaimed<lb></lb>
She was ruined for ever. she then took the Candle from Informant<lb></lb>
and went up Stairs opened the door and came down Immediatly<lb></lb>
Said to Informant what Shall I do. I am received for he has taken</p>
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