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<p n="429"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15003_date66">1692<lb></lb>
August 11th</rs>
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<p n="430">The Deposition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n430-1">Margeret</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15003_occ162">wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n430-2">John Evans</rs>
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this 11th day of<lb></lb>
Aug 1692</p>
<p n="431">Who on oath Saith yt on ye 8th Instant being Monday Came one<lb></lb>
Const & Mr Mary with a Warrant by wch they had apprehended this deponts<lb></lb>
husband, and with my Consent Searched our Lodging Roome where ye said<lb></lb>
Constable did Examin Such Trucks and Boxes as I opened with keys,<lb></lb>
and in a Bagg in one of ye Drawers were bonds and parchemts Wrytings<lb></lb>
& in a Little Purse Silver Mony to ye quantity of about £4 in old broad<lb></lb>
Mony 37<obscured></obscured>
be in Crownes and half Crownes of Milled English Money<lb></lb>
and in a Fob in ye said purse 4 Guineas of Gold, all wch was Numbard by ye<lb></lb>
said Constable & by him Rturned againe to mee. (Except one Guinea) Mr<lb></lb>
hee asked Mr Mary iff it was good who Likewise questioned itt, so yt<lb></lb>
Every thing in our Lodging was Left in my possession according as<lb></lb>
they found itt, The said suspected Tinneathe Constable Tooke with<lb></lb>
him to the house where my husband was (being butt 2 doores of) and<lb></lb>
there Mr Mary Looked on itt againe & Said itt had not been dyled, and it<lb></lb>
was in my presence delivered unto my husband, who was then Carryed<lb></lb>
before ye Recorder of London & in a Short time after, I had notice that<lb></lb>
some men had been at our Lodgings Roome & broken open ye Doors & Also<lb></lb>
ye Locks of ye Truncks & Sett a Watchman to Secure what was in ye Roome<lb></lb>
for ye use of those as their Authority was derived from, And farther<lb></lb>
saith that att her Rturne home she missed nothing of their goods but<lb></lb>
found all ye Mony both Gold and Silver in a Trunck Drawer which the<lb></lb>
Last Violent Searchers did not open.</p>
<p n="432">Jur ye die Augsti<lb></lb>
anno Dom 1692</p>
<p n="433">Coram me S. Lovell Recordr.</p>
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