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<p n="760"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50386_geo400">Westminster</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n760-1">Eleanor Pegus</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50386_occ144">Spinster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50386_occ145">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50386_geo401">Beitrand</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Quinsor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50386_geo402">Parish of St. James</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50386_geo403">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50386_occ146">Milliner</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n760-2">Samuel Mettayer</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the said Parish <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50386_occ147">Haberdasher</rs>
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taken upon their Several Oaths<lb></lb>
this 6th. Day of May 1748.</p>
<p n="761">And first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n761-1">Eleanor Pegus</rs>
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for herself saith That yesterday the<lb></lb>
5th. instant her Mistress told her this Deponent She missed Several<lb></lb>
Womens quilted Caps out of her Shop, and She this Deponent Mistress as<lb></lb>
well as this Deponent having a Suspicion the same were taken away by one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n761-2">Mary Porter</rs>
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(who work'd for this Deponent's Mistress) this Deponent<lb></lb>
desired her said Mistress to enquire of the other Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n761-3">Samuel Mettayer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
whether such Caps So lost as abovemd. were offered to him to Sale, and that<lb></lb>
thereupon the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n761-4">Samuel Mettayer</rs>
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told this Deponent's Mistress & herself<lb></lb>
that he had on the 5th. instant bought Sixteen such quilted Caps of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n761-5">Mary Porter</rs>
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for Sixteen Shillings And the other Deponent the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n761-6">Samuel Mettayer</rs>
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for himself saith That last Night being<lb></lb>
the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
fifth instant he did buy of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n761-7">Mary Porter</rs>
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Sixteen quilted Caps<lb></lb>
for Sixteen Shillings as mentioned by the other Deponent, Eleven of which Caps<lb></lb>
this Deponent hath now produced which appears to be the property of the<lb></lb>
said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Beitrand Quinsac and which things the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n761-8">Mary Porter</rs>
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acknowledge<lb></lb>
to be part of the Things She Stole out of her said Master's House</p>
<p n="762">Sworn this 6th Day of May 1748<lb></lb>
before me one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50386_occ148">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50386_geo404">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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}</p>
<p n="763"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n763-1">Hen: Trent</rs>
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<p n="764"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n764-1">Eleaner Pegus</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n764-2">Saml: Mettayer</rs>
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