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Who being severally sworn upon their Oaths say
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a bent Eleven or Twelve o Clock last Night he went with a
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to her Lodging in
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where he agreed to sleep with her that they accordingly
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went to bed together in her said Lodgings where the
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is posotive & certain there
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six Guineas &
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Two Half Guineas in Gold with some Silver in the
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saith that about an hour after they had been in Bed
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called for her maid who came out of the next room with
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a Candle and told her she missed her pockets when
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they both went to rumaging the bed pretending to look
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for them when they where found the maid then
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returned to her room and after some time this Informant went
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to Sleep that about ten o Clock this Morning this
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Informant was disposed to get up and still found the
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in Ved with him & cannot take upon
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himself to say who then she quited him in any part of the
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night or not that upon going to dress himself he found
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his Breeches had been removed from the place where
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