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to Wit
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The Information of
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Mary Mitchel
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Elizabeth
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taken before me this
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2d Day of January 1787
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Who being on Oath say and first
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William Watson
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& James
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Mr Coombs for themselves say that they are Patrdes of the Parish
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of St Johns in the said City & Liberty that Last Night between the
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Howes of Tend Eleven they mett in Peter Street a Man now present
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who Calls Himself
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Thomas Smith
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with a Large Bundle that being
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asked by the said
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James Mc Coombs
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what he had get answered
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his own Property with which He was going Home but would
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not tell where He Lived that being told by these Informants
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He must go to the Watchouse the said
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offered to
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Shew them from whence He took the said Bundle and took
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these Informants to the House of
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in Perkins
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Rents through a Passage into the Yard of the said House
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whence the said
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lifted up the Sash of the Parlour
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Window and attempted to port the said Bundle in but was fore-
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-vented by these Informants
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And Mary Wife of
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Thomas Mitchel
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for Herself says
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that last Night about Ten o Clock She left her House in Perkins
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Rents that she locked her Room door (the Right hand Parlour
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after having fastened the Window down with a Broken Nail
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-Piercer that on her Return about Half an Hour after She found
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her Room had been Robb'd and this Informt further says that
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the Blanket Sheet and other Articles now produced are her
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Property and were Stolen from out her said Room the door of
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which continued Locked on her Return
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And
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Elizabeth
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Wife of
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William Sanson
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says that She
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keeps a House next Door to the said
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Thomas Mitchel
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that
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about Half past Ten o Clock, last Night She was Standing at
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her Door and saw a Person now present who calls Himself
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Thomas Smith
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come out of the said House of
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Thomas Mitchel
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with a Bundle tye'd up in a Street that this Informt: immediately
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went and Informed the said
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Thomas Mitchel
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& his
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Wife
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Sworn before me this
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2d Day of January 1787
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S Goal Abington
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Mary Mitchell
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Eln Sansum
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