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stealing two linen sheets, value 6 s. two shirts, value 4 s. a linen bed-gown, value 4 s. two linen robes, value 1 s. a linen shift, value 1 s. a linen apron, value 1 s. a silk and cotton handkerchief, value 1 s. a copper tea-kettle, value 2 s. </rs>
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; on the 3d of March, the things mentioned were missing from a fore-room up one pair of stairs, as they were hanging to dry; I carried a list of them to Sir <rs type="persName" id="t17680518-36-person399"> <interp inst="t17680518-36-person399" type="role" value=""></interp>
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's; they were advertised, we heard nothing of them till last Sunday was se'nnight; we took the prisoner up, she made her escape from the constable; she was taken again, then she acknowledged she took the things, and had pawned them, and begged she might get them out for me: on the Monday she got a person to pay for them; we went to the several pawnbrokers, and got them out; when we went to Sir <rs type="persName" id="t17680518-36-person400"> <interp inst="t17680518-36-person400" type="role" value=""></interp>
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's, we were told it was not according to law, and I returned the things again to the pawnbrokers; it was by her direction we found them at three different pawnbrokers.</p>
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<p>Prisoner's defence.</p>
<p>I fetched them all out and paid for them myself, and acknowledged my fault.</p>
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, who had all known her fourteen years and upwards, and gave her a good character exclusive of this.</p>
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