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<p n="636"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo324">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n636-1">James<lb></lb>
Sampson</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
8th. day of March 1768</p>
<p n="637">This Examinant says that on Tuesday last about<lb></lb>
seven of the Clock he went to General Conway's<lb></lb>
that he went into the Steward's Room that he there<lb></lb>
drank<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Tea with Mrs. Mathews Mr. Leauzun<lb></lb>
and his Wife that he afterwards Played at Cards<lb></lb>
and staid with then until nine o'Clock says there<lb></lb>
was another Woman there who was a Stranger<lb></lb>
to him that he went out of the Room about nine and<lb></lb>
left them all these, that he then went up the back Stair<lb></lb>
into an empty Room called Mr. Smith's Room that<lb></lb>
he said there from about nine in the Evening<lb></lb>
until two in the Morning says he then pulled<lb></lb>
his shoes off went down Stairs and Lighted a Candle<lb></lb>
which he brought from home in his Pocket (for<lb></lb>
that purpose) at the Hall Firer then went directly<lb></lb>
into the Library and tried the Drawers of the<lb></lb>
writing Table that he found one of the Drawers<lb></lb>
open in which were several Bank Notes that<lb></lb>
is to say six Vizr. one for five hundred pounds<lb></lb>
four of One hundred each and one for Twenty<lb></lb>
five pounds all which he took away says that<lb></lb>
he then put some papers round the Lighted<lb></lb>
Candle upon the Table and left the room<lb></lb>
the papers being then on fire says he then went out of the house and got over<lb></lb>
the Yard Wall at one corner into the Alley<lb></lb>
leaving the Hall door open says he staid near<lb></lb>
an hour about the house and then went home</p>
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