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<p n="419"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo257">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n419-1">Johanna Clarke</rs>
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taken on Oath before me this 2nd. day<lb></lb>
of May 1789.</p>
<p n="420">Who being on Oath says that she is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ70">Servant</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo258">the<lb></lb>
Treasury</rs>
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that on Tuesday was <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n420-1">Le Night</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n420-2">William Jones</rs>
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took<lb></lb>
the Lock of Mr Pitts Door at the top of the Steps leading from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo259">the<lb></lb>
Treasury</rs>
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to Mr. Pitts House, that said Jones<del>put the Lock</del>
came<lb></lb>
again on Thursday or Friday following about said door. That said<lb></lb>
Jones put the Lock on said door on Friday or Saturday last that<lb></lb>
from the time of taking said Lock off to this day said Jones hath<lb></lb>
been at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo260">the Treasury</rs>
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Nine or ten different times mostly in the<lb></lb>
Mornings before the Office was open and sometimes in the<lb></lb>
middle of the day And that he generally pretended to come about<lb></lb>
Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n420-3">Pitts Lock</rs>
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. That this morning about eight oClock said Jones<lb></lb>
Came when he said "that he was come to put on an <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ71">Eschutcheon</rs>
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to Mr. Pitts Lock". Informant asked him, If he wanted the Keys, and said<lb></lb>
Jones replied "no, He could do without the keys". That said Jones then<lb></lb>
went up Stairs towards Mr Pitts door and this Informant Staid<lb></lb>
about ten minutes in the Parlour when she went to Ask him if<lb></lb>
he knew anything of an Iron Bar She had missed; And not finding<lb></lb>
him there, She went thro the Lords Room, Mr Rose's Room, and<lb></lb>
opened the door of Mr Steele's Room (the Windows of which Rooms<lb></lb>
were all Shut) When she called out "Smith" three times, and<lb></lb>
upon no Answer being made she went into Mr Steele's Room<lb></lb>
the door falling too after her And as she was going towards the<lb></lb>
door of Mr Steele's Room, which leads to Mr Cotton's Office, she<lb></lb>
turned her head round in Mr Steele's Room and saw<del>said</del>
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said Jones in the Room Coming from the Window (the Room being<lb></lb>
dark from the Window Shutters being Shut) When she observed<lb></lb>
to him that she had been all round the House looking for him<lb></lb>
when said Jones replied "for me my dear, what do you</p>
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