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The Information of
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taken before me this 19th. day of July 1784.
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Who being upon Oath says that
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this Morning about 5 o'Clock this Informant put seven Guineas and
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2s/6d in silver into
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a Drawer in his House at
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now present
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in the Roo, and in about a Quarte
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of an hour afterwards (when said Griffin was gone this Informant
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four Guineas. That this Informant pursued said Griffin to
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sais Giffin confessed to this Informant that "He had stolen
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said four Guineas", one of which he gave this Informant and
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said that "He had hid the other three in a Dunghill".
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Sworn befor me this
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14th of July 1784}
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