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Who being on Oath says that he Yesterday went in Company
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both belonging
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in order to Search for Letters suspected
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to be frandulently Secreted by said Carrington in Prejudice to
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the Revenue of the said Office, and this Informant says
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that upon such Search he found several Letters Looked
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upon in said Carrington's Buroe, which mentioned Cash to have been
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inclosed in such Letters, but that the said Letters were
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the Cash Taken from thence and
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this Informt. further says that he verily beleives that the
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said Carrington broke open the said Letters and feloniously
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Took and carried away the several tims of Money
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therein continued and applied the same to his own Use
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says that he this day Searched
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a drawes in the said
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Post Office and a Closet in the Bed & Chambers of said Carrington
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in said Office and both belonging to him, wherein he found
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many Letters opened which likewise mentioned Money to have
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been therein inclosed but what as he verily beleives had
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Sworn before
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