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<p n="1827"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1054">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n1827-1">Ann Wharton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n1827-2">Bridget Corkran</rs>
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Taken before me<lb></lb>
one of his Majestys Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace for the said County</p>
<p n="1828">Who being severally upon Oath say And first this<lb></lb>
Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n1828-1">Ann Wharton</rs>
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for herself saith that she<lb></lb>
<del>hire</del>
about the 27th. of May last she lived in a Cellar<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1055">Parkers Lane</rs>
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and when she came home from Selling<lb></lb>
her fish which was about two o'Clock she & the other<lb></lb>
Informant sat Down to Dinner and soon after Dinner<lb></lb>
a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n1828-2">Thomas Morgan<lb></lb>
Whiteford</rs>
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called at the Cellar Door and asked Bridget<lb></lb>
Corkran of She would give him assisted<del>which</del>
& she<lb></lb>
say'd she would and desired him to come down in to<lb></lb>
the Cellar upon which he came down & Drank some<lb></lb>
Beer with this Informant & the said Bridget Cockran<lb></lb>
and this Informant being tied laid herself down<lb></lb>
upon the Bed with her Child & Sell asleep and a<lb></lb>
she laid herself down it ceratin she had Twenty<lb></lb>
Six Shillings & Six pence in Silver in her Pocket<lb></lb>
that when it was almost Dark this Informant<lb></lb>
the hand of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1056">the said Whiteford</rs>
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in her pocket and<lb></lb>
upon examining her pockets found the said Money<lb></lb>
taken & Carried away upon which she immediately<lb></lb>
got from off the Bed & pursued him up the Slades<lb></lb>
but he ran away and got clear off</p>
<p n="1829">And this Informant Bridges Corksan for herself<lb></lb>
saith that she was in the Celler with the other<lb></lb>
Informant when the person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself Thomas Morgan Whiteford Came in<lb></lb>
saith when she has been for same time acquainted<lb></lb>
that about Six o'Clock in the Evening she went out<lb></lb>
& left the other Informant upon the Bed asleep and<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1057">Whiteford</rs>
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sat at the bottom at<del>bottom</del>
the Stairs seemingly<lb></lb>
asleep and in about five Minutes this Informants</p>
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