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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1864-1">Elizabeth Whitchurch</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15091_occ622">Servant</rs>
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to and living with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1864-2">William Morton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the Queens head Dark House Lane London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15091_occ623">Victualler</rs>
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Taken upon Oath before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1864-3">Brackley Kennett</rs>
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Esquire Mayor of the<lb></lb>
said City this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15091_date94">22d August 1780</rs>
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<p n="1865">Saith that the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1865-1">Paul Humphries</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1865-2">Thomas Dowling</rs>
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<lb></lb>
dined at her said Masters House on Friday last about three<lb></lb>
o'Clock and said tile about Nine that they called for no Lights<lb></lb>
That about Nine o'Clock her Mistress spoke to her and desired<lb></lb>
she would carry Light into the Dining Room where the Prisoners<lb></lb>
were that she went with a Light in her Hand into the Room<lb></lb>
and saw one of the Prisoners, but which she does not knew lay<lb></lb>
upon the Sottee Bed but believes 'was Dowling and the other<lb></lb>
rise from him as she opened the Door with his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15091_occ624">Breeches down</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and that the one that was on the Sottee Bed lay upon his back<lb></lb>
with him Breeches down upon which she went out of the Room<lb></lb>
first asking them it they wanted a Light they say'd they did not<lb></lb>
that the Curtain of the Window and the Window were both down<lb></lb>
tho' both were up when she was in the Room before during the<lb></lb>
time they were at Dinner that she immediately informed<lb></lb>
her Mistress who stood the outside the Door what she had seen<lb></lb>
who called her Master and he then went into the Room and<lb></lb>
secured the Prisoners</p>
<p n="1866">Taken and Sworn the Day and Year<lb></lb>
first above Written Before me}</p>
<p n="1867">B Kennett<lb></lb>
Mayor</p>
<p n="1868">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1868-1">Elizabeth Whitechurch</rs>
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