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The Information of
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Chatham Gardens
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in the Parish of
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Saint Leonard Shoreditch
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in the
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Book seller and
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Ann
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the Wife of
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William Clarke
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of the same Place Watchehand Piercer
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Taken on Oath before us two of His Majesty's
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Justices
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of the Peace
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in and for the said County this 26th. day
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of September 1795.
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The said
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James Pegler
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saith That he received Information
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that a Private Lottery or Little Go was drawing at the
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House of one Shenton or Mount row in the Parish of
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Saint
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James Clerkenwell
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in the said County. That this
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Informant went there on Friday Night the seventh day
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of August last and made Insurances with the Defendant
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Samuel Sheen
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of the following Numbers to wit Numbers
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4-17-148-979-933-984-985-986-987-
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and paid Thirteen Shillings for the same to the said
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Samuel
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Sheen
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And this Informant saith That he did not wait
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till the Lottery began drawing that Night.
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The the said
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Ann Clarke
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saith That she went to the
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said House in Mount Row aforesaid on the said seventh
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day of August last and two certain Lottery Wheels stood
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James
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Freegrove
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Stood and called out the Blanks and Prizes
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as they were drawn out of one of the said Wheels That
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the said
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wrote them down in a Book
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and one
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Elizabeth Moody
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drew the Papers each being tied
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with a string out of the blank and Prize Wheel That
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a Woman whose Name is unknown to this Examinant
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drew the Numbers out of the other "Wheel and one
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John
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Perkins
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out the strings that were tied round the Papers
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that were drawn as the same were drawn out opened the Papers and called one
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the Numbers That she the said Examinant saw
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some of the People then present at the said drawing pay
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some Money That she this Examinant went in and
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out of the Room and staid about an Rour and a Ralf
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That the said
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Samuel Sheen
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and free
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grove took down
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the Insurances and Sheen received the Money and
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