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<p n="697"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo421">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n697-1">Frances Scott</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo422">Nottingham Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo423">Castle Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo424">Long Acre</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ126">Widow</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n697-2">Thomas Brown</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ127">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Lane Pawn broker in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo425">Drury Lane</rs>
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taken before me this 24th. day of May 1781</p>
<p n="698">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n698-1">Frances Scott</rs>
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says, that a person now present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n698-2">Sarah Howard</rs>
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has<lb></lb>
worked for her, in stitching of Stays, for several Months pastSays<lb></lb>
that she, this day, came to this Informant and requested the use of<lb></lb>
her Parlour, saying that she had a few friends to dine with her<lb></lb>
to which this Informant consentedThat said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n698-3">Sarah Howard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
went into said Parlour in order, as she told this Informant to<lb></lb>
lay the Cloth and prepare for the Dinner, (at which time she, this<lb></lb>
Informant is very sure that a Silver Watch now produced was<lb></lb>
in a Mahogany Case in said Parlour) Says that in about half<lb></lb>
an hour she went into said Parlour and the said Watch was stolen<lb></lb>
awayAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n698-4">Thomas Brown</rs>
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says that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n698-5">Sarah Howard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came this<del>Inf</del>
morning and offered the said silver Watch to pledge to<lb></lb>
him for fifteen shillings, on which he stopped it and took her<lb></lb>
into Custody.</p>
<p n="699">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
24th. day of May 1781}</p>
<p n="700">W Addington</p>
<p n="701"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n701-1">Frances Scott</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n701-2">Thos. Brown</rs>
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