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