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<p n="1743"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1909">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1743-1">Elizabeth Jones</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Taken the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date316">27th. day of May 1786</rs>
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<p n="1744">Who being Charged with privately and feloniously Stealing<lb></lb>
in the Shop of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1744-1">Richard Bland</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ763">pawn broker</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1910">Drury Cand</rs>
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<lb></lb>
one Cotton Gown Value Sixteen Shillings his Goods<lb></lb>
Saith That She is not Guilty of Stealing the same<lb></lb>
but that She had the same in her possession at the time<lb></lb>
She was Taken and that She Received it of a Man<lb></lb>
Whom She met in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1911">Drury Lane</rs>
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and who She never saw before who said it was his wife<lb></lb>
and asked this Examinant to go and pawn it for him That<lb></lb>
She went to pawn the same at Mr. Dobrees a pawn broker<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1912">Holborn</rs>
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for half a Guinea but they refused to lend<lb></lb>
more than Nine Shillings upon it Which She refused to<lb></lb>
take and was coming out of the Shop when she was<lb></lb>
taken into Custody by a Woman a Servant to Mr.<lb></lb>
Bland.</p>
<p n="1745">Taken<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the day<lb></lb>
and year aforesaid before me.}</p>
<p n="1746">D Walker</p>
<p n="1747">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1747-1">Eliz: Jones</rs>
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