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The joint and several Informations Mary the Wife of
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who being
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severally on Oath say as follows and first this Informant
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for herself saith that sometime in the
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afternoon of Yesterday there was stolen from out of the
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Dwelling House on her said Husband one Cloth Coat three
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Wairtcoats a pair of Breeches a Black
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beaver
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Hat
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the Property of the said Husband and a Mahegany Tea Chest
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. saith she hath looked at the things
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now produced on the Examination of
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Jones
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the prisoner
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at the Bar and saith that they are the same things that
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were stolen from out of her said Husbands House as
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aforesaid, and that they are of the Value of twenty
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twenty forty
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Shillings
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and upwards And this
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Informant Henry
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Freeth for himself saith that he saw the said
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the
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Pirsoner now under Examination in possession of the Cloth
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Coat three Waistcoats
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and Mahogany Tea chest that she was sitting or kneeling
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in
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aforesaid with all the above mentioned things
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in her Apron, that she quitted them just before she was
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taken into Custody.
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Taken and Sworn at
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Guild hall
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London 25 May 1731 before me}
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the
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Mark of
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Mary Townrow
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