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taken on Oath
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the 1st. day of March 1784 before me one of his
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Majesty's
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This Informant
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Mary Hollingsworth
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Saith That on Saturday night last
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the Twenty Eighty day of February, Drummond Clarke the Prisoner now
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under Examination came to the shop of her Husband
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Ralph Hollingsworth
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and bought
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meat of this Informant and having agreed for some, This Informant thought
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she felt some persons hand in her Pocket (but having been robbed at different
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times before) she took no Notice of it then having some Shillings marked
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and one Marked Guinea, This Informant then went to the other part of
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the Shop suspecting that her Pocket had been picked and formd that
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the marked money she had in her Pocket was taken away, the Prisoner
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being still in the Shop, and suspecting that the Prisoner had done it
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she sent for the above mentioned
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who is a near neighbour
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to come to Assist her, when Mr. Kerr came no Notice of the matter
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was immediately taken but this Informant asked the Prisoner if she
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wanted any thing else to which she replied no, Prisoner then asked
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Informant what the meat came to that she had bought, Informant told
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her it was one shilling and Eleven pence, the Prisoner put her hand
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into her Pocket and paid Informant Two Shillings in order to have
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which two shillings was the same marked as was taken
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out of this informants pocket as before set forth, Accordingly this
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Informant told the said Mr. Kerr that she had been, Robbed and that
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the two shillings now produced was part of the Money the property of
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her husband.
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This Informant Samuel Laundy saith that on Saturday last
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Mrs.
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came to this Informants house in
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aforesaid
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who is a Surgeons Instrument maker, and Informant him that she had
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her Pocket Picked of seven or Eight Guineas, and that within three
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or four Months she had last above One hundred Pounds which she
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believed to have been Picked out of her Pocket , telling him that she
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could not suspect no person but a Woman who used to deal with her
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on which this Informant advised her to have some of her money marked,
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Accordingly Informant marked Twenty one shillings and one Guinea
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himself in his own name Laundy and advised her when the person came
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whom she suspected put the marked money into her Pocket and further saith
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that on the same Evening between Eight and Nine o'Clock he was sent
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for to come to Mr. Hollingsworths
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and when he came there he
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saw the Prisoner Drummond Clarke now under Examination
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and
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in the Kitchen, and then Mr. Kerr searched the
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Prisoners Pocket and took thereout the marked Guinea and
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Nineteen Marked shillings and other silver.
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