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this 7th. day of August 1789
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on Wednesday the twenty Ninth day of July last as he was walking along
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Charlotte Street
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he saw the Prisoner now present who calls
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standing at a door whom he asked why
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she stood therewho Replied that she wanted a place" having left her
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place that day, that Informant asked her with whom she had lived
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when she mentioned a Lady whose Name he cannot. now Recollect
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that Informant thinks he asked her what wages she hadhad,
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but very will Remembers her saying that she had Nineteen Guineas
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a year that said Edwards then desired Informant to walk on
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with her which he did when she knocked at a Door this Informant
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standing at a distance And upon her Return to this Informant again
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she observed that she had been at that house to enquire for the
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Mistress who was not at home. And that the Servant had desired
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her to sit down until her Mistress returned which she refused, that
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Informant then asked her if she Could get a Character when she Replied
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Yesthat she Could get a very good one. And then walked on into
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that Informant then asked her where she lived when she
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connection with her that whilst he was buttoning his Breeches
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then Jumped out of the Coach saying that she would go to the
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