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<p n="505"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo402">Middlesex</rs>
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The Voluntary Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n505-1">Alice<lb></lb>
Humphrys</rs>
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taken on<del>the</del>
Oath the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45037_date97">29th. day of<lb></lb>
December 1788</rs>
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before me one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peaces for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo403">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="506">Who Saith that on Friday the 19th. day of December<lb></lb>
instant about ten o'Clock in the Morning <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n506-1">James Grace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came to Examinants Lodgings in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo404">Ley Alley Shoreditch</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n506-2">Joseph Walker</rs>
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being these Grace said to Walker will you go<lb></lb>
and get some thingsWalker made Answer Yes And this<lb></lb>
they went out together and in about a quartes of an hour they<lb></lb>
returned again and put some bad Shillings and Table in<lb></lb>
the Room She saw Grace cant them there were Sixteen<lb></lb>
And Grace said to Walker we will do them here this Examinant<lb></lb>
said they should not be done thereThey made Answer they<lb></lb>
should not be long about them and nobody would come up<lb></lb>
in the time they Say'd they would go and yet some Stuff to<lb></lb>
do them with and both went out together and took with<lb></lb>
them a BottleGrace returned first and sat himself down tourpe<lb></lb>
the Grace from them and whild he was wiping Walker came and<lb></lb>
the Room with the Bottle now in Possession of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n506-3">James Shakeshaft</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in which was some liquietbut Examinant does not know what<lb></lb>
Walker said to Grace here is the Aqua fort is and Walker poured<lb></lb>
is out of the Bottle into a Bason and put the Shillings in the<lb></lb>
Bason to it Examinant smelt something and Walker Say's they<lb></lb>
were done Grace Say'd they did not took of a good ColourWalker<lb></lb>
took them out of the Ayna fortis and put them into a Bason of Water<lb></lb>
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and afterwards took them out and weped them And them Grace took some black Street to put<lb></lb>
over them And whilst that was doing the Officers came in and took</p>
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with the Money<lb></lb>
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Witness<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n507-1">James Shakeshaft</rs>
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<p n="508">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n508-1">Alice Humphrys</rs>
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<p n="509">Sworn the day and Year<lb></lb>
abovesaid before me</p>
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