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The Information of
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Taken before me this 29th. day
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of January 1961
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Who being on Oath says that he has lived at
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about Eight years, says that for about six or seven Months
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to Mr.
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Cleghorn of
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, and hath been very Intimate with her
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for about a Month last past, says that abt. a fortnight agoe
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he this Informant having occasion to Borrow a little Money
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asked the said Susannah if she cou'd lend him two or three
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Guineas, that she told him she had not a halfpenny in the
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World, says the said
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Ann Walter
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then Fetched him a Silver Table
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Spoon and brought it to this Informt. at the Foot of the Stairs
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in the House of the said Cleghorn, which this Informt. received
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says she then desired this Informt. to go up stairs to see a
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Chimney Glass which was Broke and a couple of new Packing
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says that they were up stairs this Informt.
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said Susannah that the Silver Spoon wou'd not be Suffecient
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for him to make as much Money on as he wanted, that she
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then went to a Cubbart in her own Room and took out a pair
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of Silver Buckles and a Ring and gave to this Informt.
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says he then asked the said
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Susannah what they shou'd do in
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Case they were found out, to which she answered, her Masters
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Hostler lodged in the House, that she wou'd lay it upon him &
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make him pay the Money, says that in two or three days af
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this he this Informt. sold the said Spoon, the Buckles and Ring
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to Mr. Hemmins Silversmith in
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and afterwards
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went to the Susannah and informed her of the same
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says he Sold them for three & twenty Shillings & nine pence
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or thereabouts
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Sworn before me this
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29th. day of Janry}
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