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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50947_n294-1">Elizabeth Dimmock</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50947_n294-26">Mary Eakins</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50947_n294-26" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50947_geo143">Parish of Enfield</rs>
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in the Said County taken<lb></lb>
this Twelfth Day of February 1798 before My one of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace in & for the Said County who upon their<lb></lb>
respective Oaths Declarg that on the Eighteenth Day<lb></lb>
of December 1797 <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50947_n294-2">William Ratfield</rs>
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of Enfield, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50947_occ45">Blacksmith</rs>
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& requested the said Informants to dive with him at his<lb></lb>
House in Enfield & that he woud procury Two Ducks for prior<lb></lb>
Dinner, with provided & sent to be backed against Two o'<lb></lb>
Clock & that they want to his House accordingly & dind wth, him<lb></lb>
upon the said Ducks & that about five o' Clock in the afternoon<lb></lb>
he went out about one Hour telling them he woud get two<lb></lb>
moe Ducks for Supper & direct them to go to the House of.<lb></lb>
Dinner his Mother (one of these Informants) and that when<lb></lb>
he brought the Two Ducks to his own House for Supper, he took<lb></lb>
these Two Informants by a back Way into his our House & then<lb></lb>
Desird them to pish the Said Ducks for Supper wth, they did<lb></lb>
& that he charged them both to lock themselves within hs House<lb></lb>
& that if any Person was to Atempt to convey in they Stand concert<lb></lb>
the said Ducks that they Might not be Seen & that the better<lb></lb>
to keep things Sarah by woud wath before his own Door &<lb></lb>
Rat it any Person should come to his House or Shop about<lb></lb>
Business he woud whistle as a Notice to tidy the sd Ducks<lb></lb>
Sitting them that he did not went every body to knew that he had<lb></lb>
Ducks for that he never did want a Ducks or two for timeness<lb></lb>
nor for them neither if they liked it & if they woud till him where he<lb></lb>
coud find them occasionally: and they then at his Request want<lb></lb>
with him when he carried the Two Ducks to the Sign of the<lb></lb>
black Horse where the Landlady asked him where he bought<lb></lb>
the Ducks so the said they were very fine bros to wch, he<lb></lb>
made no answer, & that the Ducks being recd & roasted at Ten<lb></lb>
o' Clock at Night</p>
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