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<p n="50"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx<lb></lb>
or<lb></lb>
Westm</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50110_n50-1">Ann Butt</rs>
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of ye Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50110_geo30">St. Ann</rs>
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taken upon Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50110_n50-2">Robt. Perryman</rs>
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one of her<lb></lb>
Majties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50110_occ13">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for thesd. County and Liberty<lb></lb>
on friday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50110_date11">14th. day of October 1709</rs>
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<p n="51">This Examt. saith that on <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50110_date12">Wednesday the fifth day of October 1709</rs>
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one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50110_n51-1">Elizabeth Cross</rs>
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Came to the house of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50110_n51-2">Robert Gardiner</rs>
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where this<lb></lb>
Examt: lodged, and offered a pair of painted Callicoe to this Examt. to sell for<lb></lb>
the value of Six pence which this Examt. after some words passing beh<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and the sd. Elizabeth Cross. bought of her thesd. Cross for three pence, and<lb></lb>
that she this Examt: seeing a flowered velvet Cushion upon the sd. Cross. head<lb></lb>
asked the sd. Cross what she was going to do wth. thesd. Cushion upon which<lb></lb>
she the sd. Cross replyed that it was the seat of her husbands Chair. for Sodan<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and thats he was parted from her husband and that she was going to sell<lb></lb>
it to a Broker in<del>Lane</del>
L<obscured></obscured>
Acre where she had sold all her Goods and that<lb></lb>
thereupon this Examt. desired to See the sd. Cushion or Seat and that she the<lb></lb>
sd. Examt. might as well buy it a another. and that asking the sd. Cross<lb></lb>
the price of thesd. Cushion she offered it to this Examt. for Eighteen pence and<lb></lb>
that she this Examt. offered her Eight pence provided it was honestly come by<lb></lb>
and that the thesd. Cross protected to this Examt. that the sd. Cushion or<lb></lb>
Seat was her husbands and bid this Examt. take if for Eight pence as she <lb></lb>
has Offered her. whereupon this Examt. paid her Eight pence for the sd. Cushion <lb></lb>
or Seat and asked the sd. Cross what her Name was and where she lived, and<lb></lb>
that she thesd. Cross told this Examt. that she lived at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50110_geo31"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50110_geo32">Royal Oak</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
Rupert Street</rs>
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and that she might be found then by the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50110_n51-10">Bay<lb></lb>
Dukinson</rs>
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or <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50110_n51-4">Betty Cross</rs>
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. and that he this Examt. having a Suspicion that<lb></lb>
thesd. Cross might not come honestly by thesd. Cushion or Seat followed the<lb></lb>
sd. Cross to the end of the Street where she this Examt: lost sight of her the<lb></lb>
sd. Cross. and upon Enquiring at she lodgings where the sd. Cross had told <lb></lb>
the Examt. she might be found. and upon finding that thesd. Cros had given<lb></lb>
wrong directions. went to several Chairman in Leicester fields to knew<lb></lb>
if any of them had lost such a Cushion or Seat as she this Examt.<obscured></obscured>
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