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<p n="162"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50504_n162-1">Anne Corker</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50504_geo69">Staines</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County of Middx taken upon Oath before me one of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50504_occ32">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this twenty Second<lb></lb>
day of Decr. 1761</p>
<p n="163">This Examinant upon her Oath Saith that about ten<lb></lb>
days Since the discover'd She had lost one pound of<lb></lb>
Candles out of her Shop belonging to her dwelling House in Staines aforesaid<lb></lb>
and a Ten days afterwards discover'd the had Cost<lb></lb>
another pound of Candles and On the Morning of the Same<lb></lb>
Day heated Several Pies and put them into the Ends of<lb></lb>
Several Candles which the afterwards hung up in her said<lb></lb>
Shop and the Morning following discover'd that the same<lb></lb>
Candles were taken from the Peace where She the said<lb></lb>
Examinant had before hung them up and then Inspected that<lb></lb>
Sage Segment the Wife of William Segmorn of Staines<lb></lb>
aforesaid Labourer had Stolen the same Candles for that<lb></lb>
She the said Sage had been in this Examinant's Shop the<lb></lb>
same morning this Examinant miss'd the Same Candles and<lb></lb>
of ten times before and this Examinant further saith that<lb></lb>
upon such discovery made the applied to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50504_n163-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Wood</rs>
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on the Eighteenth day of this Instant December (having<lb></lb>
first made Oath of her Inspicion aforesaid) for a Search<lb></lb>
Warrant which was granted by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50504_n163-2">Thomas Wood</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Search was thereupon made by<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50504_n163-3">William Stone</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50504_occ33">Constable</rs>
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of Staines aforesd.<lb></lb>
in Company with this Examinant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in the Dwelling<lb></lb>
House of the Sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50504_n163-4">William Seymour</rs>
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at Staines aforesaid whereupon<lb></lb>
the Salm Constable Singed into his Custody about five Pounds of<lb></lb>
Candles or thereabouts which He found in a Box in the dwelling<lb></lb>
House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50504_n163-5">William Seymour</rs>
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and the same Candles bring a<lb></lb>
new produced before the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50504_n163-6">Thomas Wood</rs>
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by the same Constable<lb></lb>
and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Search bring made the therein to see whether any<obscured></obscured>
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