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