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<p n="572"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo201">Middlesex</rs>
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(to wit)</note>
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The Information and Confession of Mary Agan of the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint Bottolph Aldgate without in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo202">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45016_occ63">Spinster</rs>
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taken and made before me one<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45016_occ64">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45016_date24">31stday of October 177</rs>
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1.</p>
<p n="573">This Informant Maketh Oath and Saith that she has lately become<lb></lb>
acquainted with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-1">Mary Sampson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-2">Mary Casey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-3">Deborah Jones</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-4">Elizabeth Walker</rs>
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and that this Informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-5">Mary Sampson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-6">Mary Casey</rs>
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on Friday Night last about Seven or Eight of the Clock<lb></lb>
were at the Beehive a Public House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo203">Nightingale Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo204">East<lb></lb>
Smithfield</rs>
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that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-7">Mary Sampson</rs>
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then and there proposed to and<lb></lb>
procured the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-8">Mary Casey</rs>
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and this Informant to rob the Room of<lb></lb>
one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-9">Isabella Lawson</rs>
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in a House let out in parcels, near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo205">Salt Petre<lb></lb>
Bank</rs>
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and in order to assist them therein gave the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-10">Mary Casey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a Key wherewith she was to open the Door of the said Room that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-11">Mary Casey</rs>
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and this said Informant accordingly went to<lb></lb>
the said House and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-12">Mary Casey</rs>
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endeavoured to open<lb></lb>
the door of the said Room with such Key which finding it would<lb></lb>
not do she came to the Window Shutter to see how that was secured<lb></lb>
and finding it only fastened with a Nail on the Outside she directly<lb></lb>
wrenched the Shutter open then opened the Casement which<del>was</del>
<lb></lb>
was fastened with a String on the Inside and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-13">Mary Casey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
went into the room thereat and took from off a Bed there one pace of<lb></lb>
Sheets which she gave this Informant as she stood on the Outside<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-14">Mary Casey</rs>
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came out again and they two went to<lb></lb>
the Door of a Room belonging to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-15">Mary Sampson</rs>
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situate<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo206">Red Cross Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo207">East Smithfield</rs>
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where he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-16">Mary<lb></lb>
Casey</rs>
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left this Informant for a short space of time when she<lb></lb>
returned in company with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-17">Mary Sampson</rs>
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who having<lb></lb>
unlocked the Door of the last mentioned Room they Three went in<lb></lb>
and there the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-18">Mary Sampson</rs>
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picked a Mark G out of<lb></lb>
the said Sheets and then sent this Informant to pawn one of them<lb></lb>
which she did with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-19">Isaac Smith</rs>
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pawnbroker in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo208">Ratcliffe<lb></lb>
Highway</rs>
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for Two Shillings and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-20">Mary Sampson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
pawned the other for the like money withMorris a<lb></lb>
pawnbroker in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45016_geo209">Well close Square</rs>
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that the four Shillings was<lb></lb>
divided between this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-21">Mary Sampson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-22">Mary Casey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the aforesaid <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-23">Deborah Jones</rs>
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and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45016_n573-24">Mary<lb></lb>
Sampson</rs>
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well knew the aforesaid Sheet all by her pawned as<lb></lb>
aforesaid</p>
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