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<p n="676"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo341">Middlesex</rs>
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Surry<lb></lb>
and City and<lb></lb>
Liberty of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo342">Westminster</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Joint & seperate Information of Elizabeth the lawfully<lb></lb>
Married Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n676-1">John Greeve</rs>
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of Park Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo343">Grosvenor<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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within the liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo344">Westminster</rs>
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and of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n676-2">Mary<lb></lb>
Lewis</rs>
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the Domestic Servant to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n676-3">Elizabeth Greeve</rs>
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taken before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n676-4">John Spinnage</rs>
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Esqr. one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ105">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said Countys City & Liberty</p>
<p n="677">Who being seperately Sworn upon their respective Coporal Oath say<lb></lb>
and fist the said Elizth. Greeve for herself saith That about two Months<lb></lb>
ago she contracted with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n677-1">William Smith</rs>
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who lives in that part of<lb></lb>
Holborn which is in the County of Middx <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ106">Upholsterer</rs>
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for a certain<lb></lb>
quantity of Household Furniture amounting in the whole to about<lb></lb>
the Value of £50 which Goods the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n677-2">Wm. Smith</rs>
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afterwards delivered<lb></lb>
into this Informants House in Park Street aforesaidSaith that some<lb></lb>
little time ago she directed the said Wm. Smith to make out his Bill for<lb></lb>
the said Goods which he accordingly did & thereby made this Informants<lb></lb>
Debtor by the Name of Elizth. Greeve for the said GoodsSaith that she<lb></lb>
objecting to have the said Bill made out in such manner as aforesaid<lb></lb>
returned the said Bill to the said Wm. Smith & directed him to alter the<lb></lb>
said Bill by making it out in such manner as to make John Greeve<lb></lb>
her Husband Debtor for the said Goods which the said Wm. Smith<lb></lb>
neglected or delivered to dosaith that about 5 of the Clock in the Evening<lb></lb>
of the 4th day of this instant March three Men came to her House in<lb></lb>
Park Street aforesaid one of whom was the said Wm. Smith who after<lb></lb>
rushing into her House one of the said three Men whose Name she<lb></lb>
knows not whose Pson she well knows insisted on her going up<lb></lb>
Stairs with him saying he wanted to speak with her above Saith<lb></lb>
that she accordingly did go up stairs with the said Pson who then<lb></lb>
Acquainted her that he was a Bailiff & that he had got a Warrant<lb></lb>
against her at the Suit of one Wm. Smith an <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ107">Upholsterer</rs>
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or used<lb></lb>
Words to that or the like purport & Effect Saith that she was so<lb></lb>
terrified with these Menaces that she was almost berest of her Sences<lb></lb>
Saith that the said three Men one of whom was the said Wm. Smith<lb></lb>
immediatly & by force took her away out of her said House & carried<lb></lb>
her in a Coach to a place of Confinement in or near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo345">Chancery Lane</rs>
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Saith that she remained in this place of Confinement till about<lb></lb>
11 of the Clock the same Night under all the Horrow that can Possibly<lb></lb>
be conceived being almost every Minute threatned by the sd. Wm. Smith<lb></lb>
& the other Men with being immediately carried to Newgate unless she<lb></lb>
would immediatly consent to Subscribe a paper purporting to be a<lb></lb>
resignation to the said Wm. Smith of the Goods that she had as<lb></lb>
aforesaid bought of him and which he had delivered into her House</p>
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