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in and for the said County, City and
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Liberty this Third Day of July 1789
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Who being duly sworn upon their Oaths say, and first
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this Informant Cornelius's Roirdin for himself sayeth that on Tuesday
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Night last he met with the Person now present who
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whom he had known for
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some Time before when they agreed to pass the Night
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together and went for that Purpose to a House the
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Sign of the Red Lyon in
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where he agreed for and paid Two Shillings for a Bed
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to whom he gave his Silver Watch and saw
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her pin the same to the Bed's Head where she left
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it-And this Informant further Sayeth he is
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possitive and certain that when he went up into
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the said Room he had Two Guineas and a Half
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together he threw himself on the Bed & fell fast
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asleep and did not awake till about Six o'Clock in
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the Morning when he found the sd.
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the
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Prisoner had left him and that Two Guineas &
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a half with some Silver had been taken out of his
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Breeches Pocket and that his Silver Watch with one
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Gold Seal and one Metal Seal thereto had been also
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taken and carried away And this Informant
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further Sayeth that about 9 o'Clock last Night he
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met with the Prisoner and taxed her with robbing
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of him when the acknowledged her taking a half Guineas
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