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<p n="313"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo173">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n313-1">Isabella O' Brien</rs>
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at Mrs.. Hall's in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo174">Sparrow's Rents</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo175">Purport Lane</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo176">Gray Inn Lane</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
27th.. day of Sepr. 1768</p>
<p n="314">Who being upon Oath says that She knows <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n314-1">Timothy Simpson</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n314-2">John Mc.Cloud</rs>
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the former a Barber the latter a Glazier that she lived with said<lb></lb>
Mc.Cloud for about four Months down to the Time the Misfortune<lb></lb>
happened to the late Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n314-4">John Stoddart</rs>
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and on that very Saturday<lb></lb>
Night they went out from her Room together about 9 o'Clock and<lb></lb>
returned between and one (as they informed her as to the hour<lb></lb>
when they returned) that Mc.Cloud appeared without his Coat hatt or Wigg<lb></lb>
and that Simpson had also lost his Wigg, that they told her they had been<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo177">Bartholomew Fair</rs>
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and got into a Fight and having given Mc.Cloud's<lb></lb>
Coat to a Person to hold it was run away with, that they all thraley<lb></lb>
in her Room that Night, that the next Morning said Simpson went down<lb></lb>
to Wapping to Mc.Cloud's Brother who is a Sailor on Board the Success<lb></lb>
then laging off <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo178">New Crane</rs>
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Hairs and brought a Cheque Shirt a Silk Handkerchief<lb></lb>
and a white Flanen Jacket which said Mc.Cloud put on says the next<lb></lb>
day being Monday, that is to say yester was three Weeks, they both went off<lb></lb>
in Order as they said to go to Mc.Cloud's Unde at Greenland Dock to get some<lb></lb>
more Cloaths for him to go on Board the said Ship which is a Stockholm<lb></lb>
Trader Capt Stophouse Commander Owner Mr. Harvey of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo179">Ratcliff Cross</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Merchant says She hath not seen either said Simpson or Mc.Cloud since<lb></lb>
says She never suspected then of the Murder of Mr. Stoddart until last Thursday<lb></lb>
when She saw their Names in the Newspaper that Mc.Cloud's Brother<lb></lb>
Christian Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n314-5">Henry</rs>
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and that he came from the Ship to her Lodging<lb></lb>
with the Jacket his last Sunday three Weeks in Company with Simpson<lb></lb>
that the aforesaid Ship was to Sail as last Sunday fortnight as they told<lb></lb>
her for Stockholm from whence She came says She has seen sd. Mc.Cloud<lb></lb>
with such a Coat and a such a Handkerchief as are now<lb></lb>
produced</p>
<p n="315">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
Septr. 27. 1768}</p>
<p n="316"> <obscured></obscured>
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<p n="317">Isabella<figure rend="mark"></figure>
O' Brien<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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