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<p n="453"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo353">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n453-1">Sarah Wagstaff</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n453-2">John Mills</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n453-3">John Best</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n453-4">Robert Belfour</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 18th. day of February 1783.</p>
<p n="454">Who on their Oaths say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-1">Sarah Wagstaff</rs>
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says, that<lb></lb>
a person now present who calls herself<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-2">Mary Weston</rs>
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was lately<lb></lb>
a Servant to this Informants Mother in Duke Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo354">York Buildings</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and closed from her Service on Thursday last was Sevenight,<lb></lb>
immediately after which this Informant missed a Gown and<lb></lb>
Petticoat, two other Gowns a White Petticoat, Etca Hat and<lb></lb>
Cloak now produced, together with other Articles this Informants<lb></lb>
property. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-3">John Mills</rs>
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says that when the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-4">Mary Weston</rs>
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was taken into custody on Thursday last, he<lb></lb>
found the purple and white Gown now produced on her<lb></lb>
back. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-5">John Best</rs>
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says that the Cloak now<lb></lb>
produced he found upon the person of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-6">Mary<lb></lb>
Weston</rs>
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, and the remainder of the Articles now produced he<lb></lb>
found in a One pair of Stairs Back room in the House<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-7">Robert Belfour</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo355">Peter Street Westminster</rs>
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;<lb></lb>
which Lodging Room the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-8">Mary Weston</rs>
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confessed to<lb></lb>
be hers. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-9">Robert Belfour</rs>
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says that the<lb></lb>
Room in which the said Articles were found in this In<lb></lb>
formants house, was occupied by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n454-10">Mary Weston</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
who hired the same, either 3 or 4 Days previous to the said<lb></lb>
Things being found therein.</p>
<p n="455"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n455-1">Sarah Wagstaffe</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
Mills<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n455-2">John Best</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n455-3">Robt Balfour</rs>
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</p>
<p n="456">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
18th. day of Febry 1783}</p>
<p n="457">M Addington</p>
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