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<p n="1541"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo991">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1541-1">Elizabeth Soper</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ309">Housekeeper</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1541-2">Benjamin Keen</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo992">Kensington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ310">Collector</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
Stamp duties taken on Oath before me this 27th.<lb></lb>
day of August 1789.</p>
<p n="1542">Who being on Oath says that on Sunday the 19th. day<lb></lb>
of July last <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1542-1">Henry Webber</rs>
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now present Dined with Mr Keen at<lb></lb>
his house at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo993">Kensington</rs>
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and upon Mr Webbers coming in<lb></lb>
and being a little after the appointed time for Dinner Mr<lb></lb>
Keen took his Metal Watch which then and usually lay on the<lb></lb>
Mantle Piece in the Parlour down to shew Mr Webber that<lb></lb>
he was after his time since which period this Informant<lb></lb>
hath never seen the said Watch, that Mr Keen and Mr Webber<lb></lb>
continued together 'till about half past Seven oClock in the<lb></lb>
Evening when they went away, that about eleven oClock<lb></lb>
that Night, before Mr Keen returned being desirous to know<lb></lb>
what oClock it was, she went to said Mantle piece to examine<lb></lb>
the Watch when she found it gone, that immediately upon this<lb></lb>
Mr Keen knocked at the door and Informant let him in when<lb></lb>
he asked her what oClock it was, the Church Clock at that time<lb></lb>
Striking Eleven when she replied it was Eleven that Informant<lb></lb>
then told said Mr Keen, that she had, just been into the Parlour<lb></lb>
to see what oClock it was by the Watch and that it was not<lb></lb>
there Mr Keens replied not there Informant replied no it is<lb></lb>
not there, that they both then went to the Mantle piece to look for<lb></lb>
said Watch but it was not to be found, that Informant then<lb></lb>
proposed to Mr Keen to examine the house to see whether<lb></lb>
any thing else was gone which they did and found all safe<lb></lb>
And this Informant further says that from the time of Mr<lb></lb>
Keen and Mr Webber sitting down together to dinner</p>
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