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Image 115 of 4582nd March 1770


Surrey to wit


The Information of Mary Compagnon< no role > of the Parish of Saint Leonard Foster within the Liberty of Saint
Martin Le Grand with County of [..] who being duly sworn upon
her Oath saith that sometime in or about the Month of February on Thousand
Seven hundred and sixty Nine a Quantity of Lace and two pair or Mecklin
Rufles the property of John Compagnon< no role > her Husband was feloniously taken
and Stolen from a Box in a Dining Room used by the said Mary Compagnon< no role > [..] And that
She has reasonable Ground to Suspect and she does suspect that John
Edwards
< no role > stole the same For thatabout six Weeks agoThe said John
Edwards
< no role > was then frequently at their House And that about six Weeks
ago The said John Edwards< no role > brought and offered to Sell to her the said
Ruffles which she well knew But being then Engaged with Company
She suffered him to take again the same And that sometimes afterwards
the said John Edwards< no role > also brought and offered to Sell to her a Piece of
joining Lace containing about seven Yards which she also knew to be
Past of the Lace so Stolen by a Cypher which she had put upon the same, And
that she then stopt the same.

Sworn at [..] Southwark this 2d.
day of March 1770 . Before me.}

Saml. Spencer< no role >

Mary Compagnon< no role >




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