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<p n="1279"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo870">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1279-1">Mary Hollingsworth</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1279-2">Samuel Laundy</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1279-3">Robert Kerr</rs>
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taken on Oath<lb></lb>
the 1st. day of March 1784 before me one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ297">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo871">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1280">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1280-1">Mary Hollingsworth</rs>
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Saith That on Saturday night last<lb></lb>
the Twenty Eighty day of February, Drummond Clarke the Prisoner now<lb></lb>
under Examination came to the shop of her Husband <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1280-2">Ralph Hollingsworth</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ298">Butcher</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo872">Smock Alley</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo873">Parish of Christ Church</rs>
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and bought<lb></lb>
meat of this Informant and having agreed for some, This Informant thought<lb></lb>
she felt some persons hand in her Pocket (but having been robbed at different<lb></lb>
times before) she took no Notice of it then having some Shillings marked<lb></lb>
and one Marked Guinea, This Informant then went to the other part of<lb></lb>
the Shop suspecting that her Pocket had been picked and formd that<lb></lb>
the marked money she had in her Pocket was taken away, the Prisoner<lb></lb>
being still in the Shop, and suspecting that the Prisoner had done it<lb></lb>
she sent for the above mentioned <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1280-3">Robert Kerr</rs>
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who is a near neighbour<lb></lb>
to come to Assist her, when Mr. Kerr came no Notice of the matter<lb></lb>
was immediately taken but this Informant asked the Prisoner if she<lb></lb>
wanted any thing else to which she replied no, Prisoner then asked<lb></lb>
Informant what the meat came to that she had bought, Informant told<lb></lb>
her it was one shilling and Eleven pence, the Prisoner put her hand<lb></lb>
into her Pocket and paid Informant Two Shillings in order to have <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo874">the<lb></lb>
change</rs>
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which two shillings was the same marked as was taken<lb></lb>
out of this informants pocket as before set forth, Accordingly this<lb></lb>
Informant told the said Mr. Kerr that she had been, Robbed and that<lb></lb>
the two shillings now produced was part of the Money the property of<lb></lb>
her husband.</p>
<p n="1281">This Informant Samuel Laundy saith that on Saturday last <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1281-1">Mrs.<lb></lb>
Hollingsworth</rs>
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came to this Informants house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo875">Smock Alley</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
who is a Surgeons Instrument maker, and Informant him that she had<lb></lb>
her Pocket Picked of seven or Eight Guineas, and that within three<lb></lb>
or four Months she had last above One hundred Pounds which she<lb></lb>
believed to have been Picked out of her Pocket , telling him that she<lb></lb>
could not suspect no person but a Woman who used to deal with her<lb></lb>
on which this Informant advised her to have some of her money marked,<lb></lb>
Accordingly Informant marked Twenty one shillings and one Guinea<lb></lb>
himself in his own name Laundy and advised her when the person came<lb></lb>
whom she suspected put the marked money into her Pocket and further saith<lb></lb>
that on the same Evening between Eight and Nine o'Clock he was sent<lb></lb>
for to come to Mr. Hollingsworths <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ299">Shop</rs>
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and when he came there he<lb></lb>
saw the Prisoner Drummond Clarke now under Examination<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1281-2">Robert Kerr</rs>
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in the Kitchen, and then Mr. Kerr searched the<lb></lb>
Prisoners Pocket and took thereout the marked Guinea and<lb></lb>
Nineteen Marked shillings and other silver.</p>
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