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Who being severally on Oath say as follows, and
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Elizabeth Chambers
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for herself saith that
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on the
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ninth day of November last past
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Charles Thompson
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the prisoner now under Examination
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who at that time
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went by the Name of Christopher,
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took a lodging for
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himself and, as he said, for his Wife, who was coming from
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Bath, with the said
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, and accordingly he and
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the other Prisoner
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Mary Young
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, came together to her said
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s House
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to bodge, and remained there until the 18th
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day of the same Month, saith that on that day she this
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Informant went out to market leaving in the House her
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Elizabeth Adams
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Mary Young
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in the
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Dining Rooms, says that when she returned she discovered
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that the said
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was gone and that three had
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been stolen from the House, a pair of Plated Candlesticks, two
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Cartors, two Silver Salt Sellers with Spoons
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two Silver Table Spoons, three Silver Tea Spoons, two Silver
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Cream pots, one Silver punch Ladle, and a Gold Watch
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with a Metal Chain and a few Trinkets
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saith
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she hath viewed the Watch and Metal Chain produced
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by the Informant Crawford and verily believes the same to
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be the property of her said Husband and that the whole
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things stolen are of the Value of ten Pounds and upwards
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And this Informant
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Elizabeth Adams
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for herself saith she lived
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as a Servant with the said
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John Chambers
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in the Month of
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November last says she remembers the Circumstance of her
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Mistress going to Market as is above related by her, and
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that the said Miloner
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Mary Young
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desired her to bring in a fowl and some pork
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Chops for her, says that soon after her said Mistress was gone
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the sd. Prisoner Young beckon'd to her, and told her
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she wanted a Drachin of Silk to trim her Gown, and gave
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her a Shilling to go and fetch it, says she accordingly went
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and fetched said Silk, says the Shilling she gave her was
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a bad ones says when she returned with the Silk which
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was in about ten Minutes from her going out, she found
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the Street and Parlour Doors both open, says she went up and
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down the Home to find the said Prisoner Young but could
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not, says she then discovered her Mistress's Watch to
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have been gone, that soon after her Mistress came in &
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