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the seventh day of February 1783.
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William Bailey
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on his Oath Saith That on the 25th. day of December last
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between five and Six O' Clock in the Evening he was standing at his
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, when two men came up
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Molly Homewood
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was at home
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to which this Informant Answered no she was not, but that she was
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gone to her fathers, One of the men said that they had a Bundle for her
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and desired this Informant
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to go into the house with them, when this Informant was in the house
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with the two men and going to open the Handkerchief one of the men
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go up Stairs or shall I go up, And this Informant Saith that
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otherwise Muslin now under Examination
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is the person who made Answer that he would go up Stairs and
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accordingly did go up and that about Two or three Minutes afterwards
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the other person who was below stairs took this Informant by the
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Collar and pushed him into the Cole hole and fastned the Cole hole
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door with a Button and a Gimlet and when he thought they was gone
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he got out thereof by means of a Drawer, and found the street door
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open and suspecting the house to have been Robbed he acquainted the
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neighbours of what had happened.
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And this Informant
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John Ward
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Saith that his said House in
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was Robbed on the Twenty fifth day of December
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last of fourteen Guineas and upwards, Twenty Yards of Irish
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Linnen Cloth, One Silver Table spoon, Eight silver Tea spoons
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One silver Cream mug two Salt spoons and a Pair of Tea Tongs
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One
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things his property
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Taken and Sworn the
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day and Year aforesaid
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before us}
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D Wilmor
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