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The Examination of
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of ye Parish of
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St. Ann
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taken upon Oath before me
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Robt. Perryman
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one of her
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Majties
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for thesd. County and Liberty
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on friday the
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14th. day of October 1709
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This Examt. saith that on
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Wednesday the fifth day of October 1709
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one
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Elizabeth Cross
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Came to the house of one
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Robert Gardiner
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where this
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Examt: lodged, and offered a pair of painted Callicoe to this Examt. to sell for
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the value of Six pence which this Examt. after some words passing beh
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and the sd. Elizabeth Cross. bought of her thesd. Cross for three pence, and
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that she this Examt: seeing a flowered velvet Cushion upon the sd. Cross. head
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asked the sd. Cross what she was going to do wth. thesd. Cushion upon which
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she the sd. Cross replyed that it was the seat of her husbands Chair. for Sodan
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and thats he was parted from her husband and that she was going to sell
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it to a Broker in
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Acre where she had sold all her Goods and that
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thereupon this Examt. desired to See the sd. Cushion or Seat and that she the
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sd. Examt. might as well buy it a another. and that asking the sd. Cross
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the price of thesd. Cushion she offered it to this Examt. for Eighteen pence and
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that she this Examt. offered her Eight pence provided it was honestly come by
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and that the thesd. Cross protected to this Examt. that the sd. Cushion or
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Seat was her husbands and bid this Examt. take if for Eight pence as she
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has Offered her. whereupon this Examt. paid her Eight pence for the sd. Cushion
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or Seat and asked the sd. Cross what her Name was and where she lived, and
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that she thesd. Cross told this Examt. that she lived at the
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and that she might be found then by the Name of
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Bay
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Dukinson
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. and that he this Examt. having a Suspicion that
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thesd. Cross might not come honestly by thesd. Cushion or Seat followed the
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sd. Cross to the end of the Street where she this Examt: lost sight of her the
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sd. Cross. and upon Enquiring at she lodgings where the sd. Cross had told
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the Examt. she might be found. and upon finding that thesd. Cros had given
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wrong directions. went to several Chairman in Leicester fields to knew
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if any of them had lost such a Cushion or Seat as she this Examt.
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