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. one of This Majesty's
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Justices of
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in and for the said County this
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8th. day of Janry.
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First this Informant Ann a Humphries
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upon her Oath saith that she hath every reason to
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suspect that a Man who calls himself by the Name
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did on Wednesday the 7th. day of Janry
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Inst. feloniously taken and Cary a way from her a Guineas
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in Gold Nine Shillings in Silver, a Silver Thimble & a
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Black Pettycoat the Property of her this said Informant
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Secondly Thomas Farguson upon his Oath saith that
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about the hour of Eight in the Evening of Wednesday the
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7th. Inst. he was at a Public house called and known
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and the Prisoner come into the aforesaid house and
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drink together and after Sitting down some little time
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he saw the Prisoner Put his hand in her Pocket and draw it out again after which he
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going out of doors, when this deponent
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asked him where he was going and some Suspicion
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arising he caught hold of him, and took the Petty coat
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of the
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Half Guinea was which he had received at the
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bar of the said house he said he had got it and
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that it was his own Property he this deponent
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then went for a Constable and had him secured
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upon suspicion of committing the said Robbery
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And further this deponent saith that the pettycoat
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now Produced is
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the Identical Pettycoat he
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