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Silk Throwster
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A
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rabella
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the Wife of the said
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Thomas Donne
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Charles Earl
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one
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John Staples
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Esqr one of His Majestys
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Justices of the Peace for the said County this 27th
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day of February 1782
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First this Informant
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James Murphy
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on his Oath saith that he
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Turns one of the Silk Threwing Mills belonging to the said
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that about Eight o'Clock this Morning when at his Duty he
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saw Hannah Eaten the Person now Present who is the Thread
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maker belonging to his said Mill take one Bobbin and a
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Quantity of Silk and put it in her Pocket
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of her having several times Robbed the Mill before he made
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a Signal to one of his fellow servants to call his Mistress
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who came into the Shop and on being informed what had happened
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she sent for an Officer and had the said Hannah Eaton searches
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Arrabella Donne
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on her Oath saith that
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being sent for and informed that the Prisoner
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was suspected of having Stolen a Quantity of
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Silk and Particularly
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this Morning by the said
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es Murphy who had given her to understand
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had then taken a Bobbin
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put it in her Pocket she sent for an Officer and had
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the said Hannah Searched in her Presence
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(who then
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Denied having any Silk about her) and in her Pocket were
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found about Six Ounces of Bengal Silk wound on two
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Bobbins which said Silk and Bobbins are the Property
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of her Husband the said
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Thomas Donne
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and the same that
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are now produced which the Prisoner then Confessed to
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have Stolen & Crased Mercy
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This Informant
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Charles Earle
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on his Oath saith that
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he was sent for by the said
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Arabella Donne
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and
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that he took out of the Pocket of the Prisoner the said
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two Bobbins and a Quantity of
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Silk wound thereon and that the
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Bobbins and
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Silk now by him produced are the same he so Pound in
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the Pocket of the Prisoner.
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Taken and Sworn the day & year
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first above written before me}
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The Mark of
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James
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Chas Earle
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