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Judith Stoll
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Beamont
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Baronet
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of
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South Audley Street
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taken before me this
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8th
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day of June 1786
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Who being upon Oath say and first the said
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Henry Hobson
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says, that on Monday last about One o'Clock as he was bringing a
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Basket of Linen containing two pair of Streets, 9 Shirts, 5 Tables Cloths
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four Shifts, a Petticoat; one Dressing Gown, a Pair of Drawers, a
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Dimitty Waistcoat, two pair Stockings, and seven Bits of Diaper,
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from the said
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Sir
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George Beamont
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's to
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Vincent Moore
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No. 11
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Street
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a Man in
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touched him upon
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the shoulder, and said "he was called" and upon this Informants
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turning Round, saw
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a person now present who calls himself
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John
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Willis
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the Prisoner
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John Willis
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standing upon the steps of a
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House
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, who told this Informant "If he would get him a
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Coach he would give him Six pence", That this Informant was
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going to do so with the Basket of Linen on his Head, when Willis
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observed that "Informant had better leave the Basket with him
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whilst he fetch'd the Coach" desired him to make haste as it was
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to carry Two Ladies to
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Henrietta Street
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, That Informant left the
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Basket of Linen with said Willis, went to
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Bond Street
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and fetch'd
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a Coach, and on his return with it to No. 53 aforesaid, he found said
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Willis gone with the Basket of Linen. That he met said Willis the
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same day in
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Oxford Road
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, whom he apprehended, and is very sure
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he is the person who Stole said Basket of Linen. And the said
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Judith Stoll for herself says that on Monday last between 12 and
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1 o'Clock she delivered all the Linen before mentioned to the said
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