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<p n="49"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo33">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n49-1">Isabella Edwards</rs>
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of No. 7 Ship Yard<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo34">Temple Bar</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ24">Spinster</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15093_date7">5th. day of<lb></lb>
February 1782</rs>
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<p n="50">Who being upon Oath says that about 7 o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Evening of last Saturday was a Week, she <obscured></obscured>
used a Hair Trunk containing<lb></lb>
three silk Gowns a Cotton Gown several Hand Kerchiefs several Aprons<lb></lb>
Caps and Pockets a black silk Cloak and several other things And<lb></lb>
a Deal Box containing several Gowns Petticoatt and other things to<lb></lb>
be put into a Hackney Coach No 719 which was drove by a personors<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n50-1">Charles Barber</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo35">New Turnstile Holborn</rs>
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That she asked the said Barber if he know ships Yard near Temple<lb></lb>
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Bar who answered "that he did very well" That she then<lb></lb>
desired him to drive her to ship Yard That in passing along Chancery<lb></lb>
Lane he spoke to some person, and before he set off with his Coach<lb></lb>
he spoke to same, other person That the said Barber instead of going to<lb></lb>
Ship Yard stopped his Coach in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo36">Shire Lane</rs>
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, came from off his Box<lb></lb>
and without any directions from the Informant took out of the said<lb></lb>
Coach the Deal <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Box and carried it up <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo37">Shire Lane</rs>
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That<lb></lb>
he neither asked her the Name or Number of the House she was<lb></lb>
going to, but continued going up <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo38">Shire Lane</rs>
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; on which she go<lb></lb>
out of the Coach and followed him telling him at the same time<lb></lb>
that she was sure he had driven her wrong, and that the place<lb></lb>
he was going up was not Ship Yard that she also told him she was<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
fraid their the Tru<obscured></obscured>
would be taken out of the Coach, by his Leasing<lb></lb>
it, to which he answered "that there was no fair" That when she<lb></lb>
returned back the said Trunk entaining him said Gowns and other<lb></lb>
Apparel was stolen out of said Coach, and further says that from the<lb></lb>
said Barbers having spoke to the two persons in coming along, and<lb></lb>
from his employing himself in taking out and carrying the said Deal</p>
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