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<p n="423"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo334">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.}</note>
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THE Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n423-1">Mary Lee</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n423-2">Edward Tranter</rs>
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and Sarah his <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ95">Wife</rs>
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Taken this 6th. Day of February 1783 before us <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n423-3">Peter Greene</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n423-4">Robert Smith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ96">Esquires</rs>
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two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County</p>
<p n="424">Who being upon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
their Oaths severally and respectively say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n424-1">Mary Lee</rs>
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for herself Saith that she is servant to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n424-2">John Jones</rs>
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at the Rox Bark in the New<lb></lb>
Road Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo335">Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ97">Victualler</rs>
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. That there was<del>taken</del>
stolen from out of a Box in her<lb></lb>
Room some time last Week One Shift and that since sunday night last the following<lb></lb>
things were feloniously taken and Carried away from out of her said Box Viz. One<lb></lb>
Other Shift, One Coloured Apron One New Silk Handkerchief. One Silk and Cotton ditto<lb></lb>
One Pocket Handkerchief Dotted. One Yard of Flowered Cotton. and One Green Silk<lb></lb>
Gown her property. That the Green Silk Gown. Coloured Apron. the Dotted Pocket<lb></lb>
Handkerchief and the Yard of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n424-3">Flower Cotton</rs>
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now here be with produced is part of<lb></lb>
her property which was so stolen as aforesaid and that the above recited Articles<lb></lb>
were as she verily believes from the Information she has received feloniously<lb></lb>
taken and Carried away by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n424-4">Daniel Bailey</rs>
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(now present) a Soldier Quartered in<lb></lb>
the house of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n424-5">John Jones</rs>
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her Master and further Saith not.</p>
<p n="425">And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n425-1">Edward Tranter</rs>
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for himself Saith that he lives at No. 4 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo336">Water Cock<lb></lb>
Alley</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo337">East Smithfield</rs>
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That on Tuesday last he was at the Black Horse in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo338">East<lb></lb>
Smithfield</rs>
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aforesaid drinking a Pint of Beer with the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n425-2">Daniel Barley</rs>
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who desired this Informant to pledge the Green Silk Gown (now here produced<lb></lb>
and which was tied up in the Handkerchief also now produced) for him East which<lb></lb>
Informant refused. Informant Asked him (Prisoner) how he came by the Gown<lb></lb>
who told him he had lived with a Girl that had taken his whole Kit of<lb></lb>
Cloaths away but that she had left the Silk Gown, which he wished to have<lb></lb>
Pawned to get some drink, Informant then told him he would not Pawn<lb></lb>
it himself but would go with him to his Wife who would Pledge the same<lb></lb>
for him. That they accordingly went<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to his wife who pledged<lb></lb>
the same and Brought Bailey the Money who then told Informant he was<lb></lb>
Quartered at Jones's and was going to him to sell his Quarters out, and if he<lb></lb>
would go he with him there he would give him a Treat. Informant then went<lb></lb>
with him and when they had got with in about thirty or Forty Yards of Jones<lb></lb>
Bailey desired him not to take any notice to Mr Jones about the Gown he had desired<lb></lb>
him to Pawn Put his hand in his Porket, gave him Six pence and desired<lb></lb>
him to go to Jones's call for a pot of Beer and pay for it. That he accordingly<lb></lb>
went to Mr. Jones's called for a Pint of Beer drank twice paid for it and<lb></lb>
returned to Mr. Youngs to acquaint him of his Suspicions (from the<lb></lb>
Caution Bailey had given him about not saying any thing to Jones)<lb></lb>
that the Gown was Stolen who requested Informant would return to<lb></lb>
Mr Jones's and acquaint him of his (this Informants) Suspicion<lb></lb>
Informant then returned to Mr. Jones's and upon Enquiry found that<lb></lb>
the said Gown Handkerchief and Sundry other things had been<lb></lb>
Stolen from the above named Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n425-3">Mary Lee</rs>
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whereupon</p>
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