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Image 407 of 7741st August 1787


Middlesex
and
Westminster }
to Wit

The Information Elizabeth Fish< no role > [..] taken
before in one of His Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the said County City and Liberty
the first Day of August 1787

Who being on her Oath said that on John Easton< no role > took an Apartment in her House about three
Weeks last past and that on or about four in the afternoon of Friday the 27 of July last past
She left in her Gurret Several Shifts and Shirts to Dry upon a lina. That above five in the afternoon
of the same Day all her other lodgers were [..] and did noe [..] att night but that at about seven
O Clock the same Evening the said John Easter< no role > came in ord said he would go up Stairs and taker a Shop
his apartment being up nor pair of Stairs in said house he went and continued above skin [..]
About 20 minutes he this came down and Went out in a great hurry he quickly r [..] nd and
after a Very Short Stay above Stair W [..] one again and did not return till about Ten O. Clock
about half past three or four the next morning he nor down Stair in a grew hurry and Went out
and she saw him no more that Daythat about the hour of Six on said Saturday morning on
going into her Garret She missed two [..] Shirks Which had been taken from the lines of the
& Value of One Guinea and a half which had been interested with her to Wash and there [..] on
as no other Person but the said John Easton< no role > had been in the House [..] ing the time above described
concludes that he and him only took the said Shirt

Sworn before the 1. Augt. 1787

Edwd Bindloss< no role >

Eliz [..] ishes




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