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<p n="326"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45035_geo238">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n326-1">Elizabeth Bennett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken on Oath before me One of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45035_occ88">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County.<lb></lb>
this 24th. day of January 1788</p>
<p n="327">Who on her Oath saith that she hath known the Prisoner<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n327-1">Thomas Pearce</rs>
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for about the Space of Eight Years last past<lb></lb>
most part of which time she hath lived with him as his<lb></lb>
Wife That they have lived in the House known by<lb></lb>
the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45035_geo239">Yorkshire</rs>
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Grey in Bonds <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45035_occ89">Stables</rs>
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for about<lb></lb>
<del>the</del>
Three Months last Past. That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n327-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Pearce</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45035_occ90">put the hasp and Lo</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
(found by the Officers) on<lb></lb>
the Table Drawer of which he always kept the Key<lb></lb>
and that she was unacquainted with what was contained<lb></lb>
in the said Drawer except a Leather bag with some<lb></lb>
Copper half pence And that no other Person but<del>the Counterfeit Silver<lb></lb>
Coin found in the said Table Drawer<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
past there by</del>
the said Thomas Peace<del>and another<lb></lb>
Person</del>
ever had access to the same but him to the<lb></lb>
best of her Knowledge<del> <obscured></obscured>
belief</del>
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<p n="328">Taken and Sworn before<lb></lb>
the Day and Year above<lb></lb>
Written.<lb></lb>
W Blackborow}</p>
<p n="329"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45035_n329-1">Eliz Bennett</rs>
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