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taken on Oath before me
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Samuel
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Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of the
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Peace in and for the said County the
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George Cooke
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for himself saith
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that being came with the Gout he lies in a Room
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on the Ground floor of his House within which
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is a little Room in which his Man Servant usually
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lies that on Sunday last about half an hour after fice
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o'Clock in the Morning he saw
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his then
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and in about an hour after his Maid Servant
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Jane Rouse Same and informed him that his
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fashioned Silver Candlestick three Silver Table
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to inform
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him of the Robbery. And the said Anne Cooke for
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herself saith that About Six o'Clock of the said
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Morning her Maid Servant Pane Rouse came
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which she immediately got up and went down Stairs
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where she found that the Window in
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between
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the Pantry and Scullery was broke open one of two wooden
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Bars therein being quite cut out and the other, partly
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cut through and one half of the Window taken out
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and that the said Silver Candlestick was taken out
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of that Scullery and the other things out of the Pantry
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that on looking carefully at the Window she was of
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opinion it had been taken down from within the
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