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The Information of
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John Best
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Robert Belfour
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taken before me
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this 18th. day of February 1783.
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Who on their Oaths say and first the said
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Sarah Wagstaff
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a person now present who calls herself
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Mary Weston
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was lately
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a Servant to this Informants Mother in Duke Street
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York Buildings
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,
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and closed from her Service on Thursday last was Sevenight,
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immediately after which this Informant missed a Gown and
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Petticoat, two other Gowns a White Petticoat, Etca Hat and
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Cloak now produced, together with other Articles this Informants
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property. And the said
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John Mills
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says that when the said
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was taken into custody on Thursday last, he
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found the purple and white Gown now produced on her
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back. And the said
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says that the Cloak now
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produced he found upon the person of the said
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Weston
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, and the remainder of the Articles now produced he
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found in a One pair of Stairs Back room in the House
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in
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Peter Street Westminster
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;
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which Lodging Room the said
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Mary Weston
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confessed to
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Robert Belfour
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says that the
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Room in which the said Articles were found in this In
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formants house, was occupied by the said
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,
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who hired the same, either 3 or 4 Days previous to the said
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Things being found therein.
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Mills
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Sworn before me this
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18th. day of Febry 1783}
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M Addington
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