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The Information of
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February 1768
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Who being upon Oath says that about 10 o'Clock last
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Night as he was in
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a Woman now present who calls herself
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Eleanor Steel
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desired him
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to go home with her, that he accordingly went with her to a
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House in
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Court where he laid down on the floor in
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a Room up two pair of Stairs having then 14 Guineas & a
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sixpence in one pocket and a six and thirty Shilling piece &
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four Shillings in another Pocket and fell a sleep the said
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being in the Room as likewise another Woman
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who is lying in and her young Child, that when he waked about
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six o'Clock this Morning he found that the above mentioned 14
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Guineas and six pence had been taken not of his pocket &
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that the said
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was gone away, that the other Woman
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told him where he was likely to find the said Eleanor, that he
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went by her Directions to the Sign of the
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two Brewers
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in
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where he found the said Eleanor asleep, that on
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his charging her with picking his pocket She confessed the
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same and returned him eleven Guineas & a half and seven
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Shillings of the Money,
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his
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Gardner
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Mark
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Sworn before me the day
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& Year first above written}
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