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<p n="1590"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1015">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1590-1">Henry Fletcher</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ325">Esquire</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1016">No</rs>
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21 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1017">Oxendon Street</rs>
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taken on Oath before one<lb></lb>
this 7th. day of August 1789</p>
<p n="1591">Who being on Oath says. that between One and Two oClock<lb></lb>
on Wednesday the twenty Ninth day of July last as he was walking along<lb></lb>
Charlotte Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1018">Rathbone Place</rs>
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he saw the Prisoner now present who calls<lb></lb>
herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1591-1">Margaret Edwards</rs>
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standing at a door whom he asked why<lb></lb>
she stood therewho Replied that she wanted a place" having left her<lb></lb>
place that day, that Informant asked her with whom she had lived<lb></lb>
when she mentioned a Lady whose Name he cannot. now Recollect<lb></lb>
that Informant thinks he asked her what wages she hadhad,<lb></lb>
but very will Remembers her saying that she had Nineteen Guineas<lb></lb>
a year that said Edwards then desired Informant to walk on<lb></lb>
with her which he did when she knocked at a Door this Informant<lb></lb>
standing at a distance And upon her Return to this Informant again<lb></lb>
she observed that she had been at that house to enquire for the<lb></lb>
Mistress who was not at home. And that the Servant had desired<lb></lb>
her to sit down until her Mistress returned which she refused, that<lb></lb>
Informant then asked her if she Could get a Character when she Replied<lb></lb>
Yesthat she Could get a very good one. And then walked on into<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1019">Goodge Street</rs>
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that Informant then asked her where she lived when she<lb></lb>
Replied about or near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1020">the Adam and Eve</rs>
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with an Aunt that he then called a Coach being tired and told her he would set her down at the Adam and and Eve that when the Coach<lb></lb>
came to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1021">the Adam and Eve</rs>
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it stopped and the Coachman open'd the<lb></lb>
Door on this Informants left side the said Edwards then sitting on<lb></lb>
his right that Informant desired him to shut the door, immediately which<lb></lb>
he did at which time this Informant was attempting to have<lb></lb>
connection with her that whilst he was buttoning his Breeches<lb></lb>
up, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1591-2">Margaret Edwards</rs>
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open'd the door on her right and<lb></lb>
then Jumped out of the Coach saying that she would go to the<lb></lb>
Adam</p>
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