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The Information of
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Majestys
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the 7th day of November
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1783.
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in Thrale Street in the
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the said House belonging to
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Leah Freeman
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Silk throwster in Mason Court
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that this Morning about
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Nine o Clock he went from list Lodging to his work and his wife then being
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at her Business he locked the Door as he usually had done
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hour past Twelve O'Clock that when his wife and himself
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unlocked, the drawers in the room open and the following
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thing stolen thereout (vizt.) One Silk stuff Gound, One flowered
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Cotton Gound, One flowered Linnen Gown, One pair of Stays, One
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and sundry other things the property of the aid
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Robert Eggleston
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Gown, One Silk and Stuff Gown and one sheet now produced
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This Informant
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Samuel Yardley
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Saith That this day about noon
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as he was going up Kings land read in the Parish of
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Saint Leonard
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he saw
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Sarah Slade
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Mary Wood
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the prisoners now under Examination
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Walking along together the said
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then having a
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Bundle in her Apron And that he knowing them to be suspicions
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people asked the said Sarah what She had in her lap she told this
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Examinant it was her own property, he them asked
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if
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she Knew it to be her daughters property she said that it was and
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that they was removing from the other End of the Town to
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Kingsland
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to live, This Informant stile being doubtfull that they did not
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come honestly by it brought them to the Public Office in
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and upon inquiry found that the said Bundle
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Containing the said
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Silk and
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Stuff Gown and one sheet do belong to the said
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as by his Information sets fully.
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Sworn the 7th. day of
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November 1783 before.}
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D Wilmot
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Robert
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Eggleston
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