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Robert Wheeler
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that on the Eleventh of April last
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he took into Pledge the white Cotton Counterpane
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now produced and sworn to be the Property of
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the other Informant
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Hannah Wintworth
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John Butterworth
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and lent
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him the same of Eleven Shillings upon the
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said Counterpane
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Benjamin
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Rudge
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House
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King Street
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Saint Anns
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, that
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about three months since, he let his first Flon
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unfurnish'd to
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Hannah Wentworth
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Alexander
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whom he then took to be man and
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wife, that about a month since he heard that
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the said
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Hannah Wentworth
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was in some trouble
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and confin'd, that during her confinement the
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said
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Alexander Ramsay
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had possession of
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the Apartments, that about a Week or a fortnight
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before the said
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Hannah Wentworth
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was relias'd
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this Informant observ'd a Woman backwards
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and forwards very frequently and believes the
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said Woman is habited with the said
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Alexander
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Ramsay
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the whole a most part of that time
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And this Informant further sayeth that
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he very well knew some of the wearing apparel
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which
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