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<p n="257">The Declartion and Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15076_n257-1">Joseph Barrow</rs>
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taken upon Oath ye. <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15076_date42">12th. day of September 1765</rs>
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<p n="258"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">agst<lb></lb>
El: Stanmore</note>
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I saw <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15076_n258-1">Elizabeth Stanmore</rs>
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with three Guineas which asked<lb></lb>
her how she Came by them she said Mr: Watford his Cousin<lb></lb>
and Mr Boddington had given her a Guinea Each and<lb></lb>
desired me to Buy her a pair of Silver Buttons & Buckles and<lb></lb>
gave me one Pound Six Shillings for which I gave one Guinea<lb></lb>
at a Shop on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15076_geo183">Towerhill</rs>
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and Returned her Back five Shillings<lb></lb>
Another time Eliz: Stanmore had put her Shoes of to Clean<lb></lb>
at the Cellar Door and I was in a Room called the Eight which<lb></lb>
we tooks & joyns to the Barr, Mistress went to the door & was<lb></lb>
talking to Some persons which she observed and went into the<lb></lb>
Barr without Shoes and look out of the Till a Half Guinea<lb></lb>
and wrapped it up in a piece of Paper & put down her Bossom<lb></lb>
Watching Mistress all the while some time after my Mistress<lb></lb>
Came in & went to the Till and mist the half Guinea & Challenged<lb></lb>
her with it and she denied it</p>
<p n="259">On a Friday about the middle of May saw <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15076_n259-1">Eliz: Stanmore</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Slip one Shilling into her Shoe which I Challenged her with<lb></lb>
and she denied it I Searched her Shoes and found one Shillg.<lb></lb>
and two five Shillings and 3 penny Peices on which I threatned<lb></lb>
her I would tell my Mistress of she begged and desired I would<lb></lb>
not threatned to Drown, or to Kill herself with a Knive if I did<lb></lb>
and Severall times sent the other <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15076_occ122">Servant</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15076_n259-2">John Curtis</rs>
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to desire<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to Come<lb></lb>
to her and frightned him in thinking she would make away with<lb></lb>
her self & had Concealed a Knive under her Cloaths I went unto her she begged<obscured></obscured>
would not tell and said<lb></lb>
I might as well do the Same and that the Servant before had<lb></lb>
a Pick Lock hey which he used on such occasions on the<lb></lb>
Monday following I complied, as I was Cleaning the little<lb></lb>
Parlour Eliz: Stanmore came and told me then an opportunity<lb></lb>
offered to Rob the Till and she had conveyed the Keys away<lb></lb>
in the Table Cloath into a Drawer Mistress was gone out<lb></lb>
with Nurse, and my Master was at the Door, and now<lb></lb>
was the Time, or cannot do it all, and she watched my Master<lb></lb>
at</p>
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