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The Joint & seperate Information of Elizabeth the lawfully
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the Domestic Servant to the said
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for the said Countys City & Liberty
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Who being seperately Sworn upon their respective Coporal Oath say
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and fist the said Elizth. Greeve for herself saith That about two Months
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ago she contracted with one
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who lives in that part of
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for a certain
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quantity of Household Furniture amounting in the whole to about
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the Value of £50 which Goods the said
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afterwards delivered
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into this Informants House in Park Street aforesaidSaith that some
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little time ago she directed the said Wm. Smith to make out his Bill for
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the said Goods which he accordingly did & thereby made this Informants
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Debtor by the Name of Elizth. Greeve for the said GoodsSaith that she
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objecting to have the said Bill made out in such manner as aforesaid
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returned the said Bill to the said Wm. Smith & directed him to alter the
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said Bill by making it out in such manner as to make John Greeve
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her Husband Debtor for the said Goods which the said Wm. Smith
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neglected or delivered to dosaith that about 5 of the Clock in the Evening
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of the 4th day of this instant March three Men came to her House in
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Park Street aforesaid one of whom was the said Wm. Smith who after
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rushing into her House one of the said three Men whose Name she
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knows not whose Pson she well knows insisted on her going up
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Stairs with him saying he wanted to speak with her above Saith
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that she accordingly did go up stairs with the said Pson who then
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Acquainted her that he was a Bailiff & that he had got a Warrant
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against her at the Suit of one Wm. Smith an
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or used
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Words to that or the like purport & Effect Saith that she was so
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terrified with these Menaces that she was almost berest of her Sences
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Saith that the said three Men one of whom was the said Wm. Smith
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immediatly & by force took her away out of her said House & carried
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her in a Coach to a place of Confinement in or near
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Saith that she remained in this place of Confinement till about
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11 of the Clock the same Night under all the Horrow that can Possibly
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be conceived being almost every Minute threatned by the sd. Wm. Smith
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& the other Men with being immediately carried to Newgate unless she
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would immediatly consent to Subscribe a paper purporting to be a
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resignation to the said Wm. Smith of the Goods that she had as
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aforesaid bought of him and which he had delivered into her House
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