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<p n="656"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo254">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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<p n="657">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n657-1">Mary Fossett</rs>
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late <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45021_occ104">Servant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n657-2">Richard Mitchell</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo255">Leather Lane</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 11th, day of October 1774</p>
<p n="658">Who being upon Oath says that she lived about two months last past<lb></lb>
with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n658-1">Richard Mitchell</rs>
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, that about a fortnight ago her<lb></lb>
said Master gave her a Bank Note of the value of one hundred<lb></lb>
pounds on Wednesday and desired her to get a Porter to carry<lb></lb>
it to the Bank and get it changed and to give the Porter two<lb></lb>
or three Guineas for his Trouble, that she knowing one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n658-2">Davis<lb></lb>
a Porter</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo256">St. Dunstan'</rs>
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s Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo257">Fleet Street</rs>
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carried the said Bank<lb></lb>
Note to him and desired him to get it changed at the Bank giving<lb></lb>
him at the same time a Bag which her Master had ordered<lb></lb>
her to buy, that the waited at the said Davis's till he brought<lb></lb>
the Cast for the said Note and on receiving it from him she<lb></lb>
gave him three Guineas for his Trouble, that the staid at the<lb></lb>
said Davis's house 'till 7 o' Clock when she carried the said Cash<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n658-3">Richard Mitchell</rs>
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's Wife he being then on Duty at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo258">the Post Office</rs>
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, that the next day the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n658-4">Richard Mitchell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
asked if she had received the Money to which she answered yes<lb></lb>
and that she had given it to her Mistress, that he said Master<lb></lb>
desired her to go to the said Davis and tell him that in Case<lb></lb>
any body asked her about the Note he should tell them he had<lb></lb>
it from a Man and not from a Woman, that the said Davis<lb></lb>
not being at home she delivered the said Message to his Wife</p>
<p n="659">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n659-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Fossett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="660">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
October 11, 1774}</p>
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