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<p n="421"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo261">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
The Information Abraham Coney Beer<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ69">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="422">Who being upon Oath saith that on the 7th. of January<lb></lb>
last about Eleven O' Clock at Night he was picked up by<lb></lb>
a Person now Present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n422-1">Elizabeth Clayton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who took him to a House of ill same in the almons ye<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo262">Westminster</rs>
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and he went to Bed with her at which time<lb></lb>
he had in his Breeches Pocket a Metal Watch and he<lb></lb>
put his Breeches under his head with the Watch that<lb></lb>
about Six O Clock the next Morning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n422-2">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Clayton</rs>
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dressed herself and pulled the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo263">Breeches</rs>
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from<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
under this Informants Pillow and he asked her when<lb></lb>
she was going she sayd only to make Water & would be<lb></lb>
up again in two or three Minutes but she<del>returned</del>
did<lb></lb>
not return again that there was not to the knowledge of<lb></lb>
this Informant any other person in the Room but the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n422-3">Elizth Clayton</rs>
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from the time that she took his Breeches<lb></lb>
from under his head to the time that the Land lady of the<lb></lb>
House brought them up into the Room without the Watch<lb></lb>
which was about Eight O Clock<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
</p>
<p n="423">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date30">13th. day of February<lb></lb>
1775</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n423-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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<p n="424"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n424-1">Abraham Coneybeer</rs>
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