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Who being or her Oath saith that on Saturday night last about the
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came down Stairs
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to
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the man any more until Sunday Morning
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this 23d.
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care of it that she laid it on the Table and went out for a Candle and when
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she came back she did not see it nor did she take away Notice and that it
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brought
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James Palmer
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into her
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house on Saturday night last about the hour of nine
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Mary Bateman
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following says
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she went and fetched Six penny worth of Gin and that Durant went up stairs with
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</
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Palmer that she knows nothing about the Watch nor did she ever see it
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before it was in the possession of the Constable
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Taken and Signed by
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</
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Mary Bateman
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and
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Elizabeth Sully
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>
</
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>
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lb
>
</
lb
>
The Day and Year abovementioned
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lb
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>
Before me
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>
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>
John Staples
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her
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>
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Elizabeth
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>
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Sully
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>
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>
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=
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>
</
interp
>
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lb
>
</
lb
>
Mark
</
p
>
</
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