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<p n="210"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo153">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n210-1">Elizabeth Tarrier</rs>
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late<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ34">Servant</rs>
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at the Elephant in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo154">Monmouth Street</rs>
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but now at No. 20 in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo155">Plumbtree Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo156">Bloomsbury</rs>
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taken before me this 17th. day of January<lb></lb>
1784.</p>
<p n="211">Who being on Oath says that about 11 o'Clock at Night on<lb></lb>
Wednesday the 14th.. of January Instants. she was directed by her<lb></lb>
Mistress (Mrs. Allen) to carry a Pot of Beer to the House of a Person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n211-1">Matthew Costelo</rs>
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. That this Informant<lb></lb>
carried a Pot of Beer to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n211-2">Matthew Costelo</rs>
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's accordingly,<lb></lb>
whom she found in the Shop alone below That after this Informant<lb></lb>
had set the Beer down on a Compter in said Shop, said Costelo<lb></lb>
locked the Shop-door, took hold of her by force, carried her<lb></lb>
into a Parlour adjoining the Shop, locked said Parlour door<lb></lb>
and said "God damn ye for a Bitch I will ravish ye"-That<lb></lb>
said Costelo then threw this Informant on a Bed in said Parlour,<lb></lb>
pulled up her Petticoats and by force and violence feloniously ravished<lb></lb>
and carnally knew this Informant against her Will and Consent;<lb></lb>
That this Informant made every resistance in her power & cried<lb></lb>
out Murder several times, but without any effect, and<lb></lb>
further says that when <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n211-3">William Barnard</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ35">Soldier</rs>
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, knocked<lb></lb>
at the said parlour-door during the time said Costelo & this<lb></lb>
Informant were in said parlour, she this Informant (from<obscured></obscured>
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<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
threats and Menaces which said Costelo uttered) was afraid<lb></lb>
to inform him of her situation</p>
<p n="212">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
17th.. day of Janry.. 1784}</p>
<p n="213"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n213-1">Thos: Gilbert</rs>
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:</p>
<p n="214">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n214-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Tarrier</rs>
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Mark</p>
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