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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n785-10">Mary</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50386_occ156">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n785-1">Peter Gray</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50386_geo411"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50386_geo412">Saint<lb></lb>
Anne</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n785-2">Stephen Norman</rs>
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of the same Parish<lb></lb>
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taken upon their Several Oaths this 13th Day of May 1748</p>
<p n="786">And first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n786-1">Mary Gray</rs>
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for herself saith That this Day one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n786-2">James<lb></lb>
Symmonds</rs>
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with another person whose Name is not known to this Deponent<lb></lb>
came into her House and called for a pot of Beer and at the Same time<lb></lb>
gave her a Sweet-Bread and Kidney to dress for their Dinners, which She look<lb></lb>
from them in Order to dress, and gave her Servant Orders to draw the Quart<lb></lb>
of Beer which She did, and while her said Servant went to draw another Pint<lb></lb>
of Beer, and this Dywnent was dressing the said Victuals in her Kitchen, She the<lb></lb>
said Dywnent (while her Servant was in the Cellar) went into her Tap Room<lb></lb>
where She left the said Symmonds and other person but to her great<lb></lb>
Surprise, found they were gone, and the pot of Beer not touch'd nor paid for,<lb></lb>
and, upon examining her Room, mist four Brass Candle sticks, upon which She<lb></lb>
went into the Street, and made Enquiry for the said Symmonds and the other<lb></lb>
person whose Name is not known, and, by the Direction & Assistance of her<lb></lb>
Neighbours and her said Servant, She secured the said Symmonds, and Sent<lb></lb>
for <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n786-4">Stephen Norman</rs>
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(one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50386_occ159">Constables</rs>
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of the said parish) to take Charge<lb></lb>
of him the said Symmonds, And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n786-5">Stephen Norman</rs>
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saith, That upon<lb></lb>
Securing the said Symmonds, he the said Symmonds said, That he imagined<lb></lb>
that the said Candle sticks were Secreted in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50386_geo414">Greyhound Alehouse</rs>
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(commonly called<lb></lb>
the French: Change) in one of the front Drinking Rooms of the said House<lb></lb>
(agreeable to the said Symmonds's Information) the said Candle sticks were found.</p>
<p n="787">Sworn the said 13th. Day of May 1748<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="788"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n788-1">Hen Trent</rs>
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<p n="789"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n789-1">Mary Gray</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50386_n789-2">Stepn. Norman</rs>
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