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The Information of
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taken before us this 17th.. day of Decr. 1762
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Who being upon Oath says that he is Servant to Mrs.. Bond who
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lodges at Mrs. Thomas's a Taylor in
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that on Monday
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Night last he opened the door to his Mistress and a Person now
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, says that they both
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went into the Parlour and that he went into the Kitchin
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which is at a distance in the Yard, says that in about a
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Quarter of an hour after he was in the Kitchin he heard
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a Knock at the Street door which he went and opened
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says that as he went towards the said door he heard a
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Sereech, which by imagined to be his Mistresses voice
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says that he then thought he heard his Mistress say, for Christ-
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Sake don't you, says that after he had opened the
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Street door he heard a Groaning, and then went into the
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Kitchin, says that afterwards hearing the Street door
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open he went towards,
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then
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Parlour door where he saw
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his Mistress, who asked him if he was deff, that he
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asked why, to which she replied because I called and
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you did not hear me, says that he then heard his
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Mistress says I hope I shall have Justice done me
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The Villain has used me most Dreadfully, says that
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his Mistress desired him to follow the gentleman who the
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said called himself Lord Kilfogg, says he followed said
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Lord Kilfogg who now calls himself
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James Hart
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to
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Ponds Coffee Houses where he asked the Waiter if Lord
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Kilfogg was there, says the Waiter Laughed at him & told
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him he was there asked him if he wanted him and that
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he replied me, says he went the next Morning to
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be enquire after the aforesaid Lord Kilfogg, says that
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the Waiter at the
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Told him that
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this Name was not Lord Kilfogg, that he won'd
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he affronted if he called him so for that his
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