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<p n="639"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo507">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n639-1">Mary Middleton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ183">Servant</rs>
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to Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n639-2">Henry Simpson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo508">No. 67</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo509">Wapping Wall</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo510">Saint<lb></lb>
Paul Shadwell</rs>
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in the said County.<lb></lb>
Taken this 16th. day of February 1785<lb></lb>
before us Two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ184">Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County.</p>
<p n="640">Who being on her Oath Saith that between seven<lb></lb>
and Eight OClock in the Evening of Saturday last some person<lb></lb>
rang at the Bell of her Masters door at No. 67 as above mentioned no person being therein but Informant<lb></lb>
Whereupon she went to the door and saw a Person there who<lb></lb>
asked Informant for a Letter which lay upon the Desk in<lb></lb>
the Parlour, Informant then went into the Parlour to see<lb></lb>
if any Letter was there but not finding any there was<lb></lb>
returning to acquaint the person therewith, when she was<lb></lb>
Stopped at the Parlour door by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n639-72">William<del>John</del>
Bull</rs>
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a prisoner now<lb></lb>
are present who put a Pistol to her head, and sayed to<lb></lb>
Informant dont speak a Word, That the person who she<lb></lb>
Supposes had rand at the Bell and another person then<lb></lb>
came into the Parlour when they Confined her Put a Hat over<lb></lb>
her face but not so Close but that she could Easily distinguish<lb></lb>
the face of Bull who she this Informant knew some time<lb></lb>
before, That the man who held the Hat over her face stayed<lb></lb>
with her during the time the other two men went up<lb></lb>
Stairs, and broke open a desk and took thereout. sundry<lb></lb>
Papers and two Pocket Books Etc as she has been Informed<lb></lb>
by her said Master and which Information she veriy believes<lb></lb>
to be true. But that before the said two men went up Stairs<lb></lb>
they broke open a Desk in the Parlor and took thereout a<lb></lb>
Pocket Book as she has been likewise Informed by her<lb></lb>
said Master. But saith that she saw several Paper fall<lb></lb>
out of the Desk in the Parlor on the Floor Saith that<lb></lb>
before the said two men came down Stairs the Bell rang<lb></lb>
upon which they came down Stairs and upon the Bell</p>
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