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The Informations of
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Who being on Oath severally say and first the said Sarah
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Berger for herself says that between four and five oClock in the
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Afternoon of Thursday last the three prisoners now present who call
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when said Sarah Rooke told this Informant that she wanted
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a pair of Mans Common working Stockings at half a Crown a pair
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that Informant shaved her some, and she made Choice of a pair of
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dark ones at the price of half a Crown and in payment for them
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threw down a Guinea, that Informant sent her boy out to get
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said Sarah Rooke that he liked a light coloured pair when she replied
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No you shall not have light ones you shall have dark ones, that
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whilst said Sarah Rooke was making Choice of the Stockings said
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other Woman who is absent said Sall make haste for we shall
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be too late at Billings gate, that after this the said
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came over and informed her of what she had seen whereupon the three
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Prisoners were Secured, the fourth person having left the Shop
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that Informant then discovered that three pair of Stockings had been taken
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our of her Window namely two of Silk and one of Silk and Cotton And
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that the Single Silk Stocking now produced had been taken from the line
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in the Window which last mentioned Stocking was given to her by her
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Servant who had picked it up
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Hannah Woodger
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Sarah Berger and that she saw the three Prisoners in the Shop at that
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take a Single Silk Stocking
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