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Taken before me
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one of his Majestys Justices of the
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Who being severally upon Oath say And first this
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for herself saith that she
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about the 27th. of May last she lived in a Cellar
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and when she came home from Selling
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her fish which was about two o'Clock she & the other
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Informant sat Down to Dinner and soon after Dinner
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a person now present who calls himself
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called at the Cellar Door and asked Bridget
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Corkran of She would give him assisted
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& she
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say'd she would and desired him to come down in to
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the Cellar upon which he came down & Drank some
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Beer with this Informant & the said Bridget Cockran
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and this Informant being tied laid herself down
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upon the Bed with her Child & Sell asleep and a
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she laid herself down it ceratin she had Twenty
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Six Shillings & Six pence in Silver in her Pocket
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that when it was almost Dark this Informant
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the hand of
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in her pocket and
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upon examining her pockets found the said Money
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taken & Carried away upon which she immediately
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got from off the Bed & pursued him up the Slades
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but he ran away and got clear off
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And this Informant Bridges Corksan for herself
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saith that she was in the Celler with the other
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Informant when the person now present who calls
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himself Thomas Morgan Whiteford Came in
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saith when she has been for same time acquainted
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that about Six o'Clock in the Evening she went out
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& left the other Informant upon the Bed asleep and
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the said
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sat at the bottom at
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asleep and in about five Minutes this Informants
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