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<p n="850"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">December 1777</note>
November 19 I sent for the Constable the prosecutor and his wife<lb></lb>
and Examined them as follows</p>
<p n="851"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n851-1">Andrew Archer</rs>
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</note>
Did you on the 11 instant come before me & possitively Swear that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n851-2">Mary<lb></lb>
Young</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n851-2" type="surname" value="Young"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n851-2" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
had taken and carried away a Petticoat and three Quarters of a<lb></lb>
Yard of New Cloth from Your Lodgings (Your property) and did I not<lb></lb>
in consequence thereof grant You a warrant</p>
<p n="852">Answer Yes</p>
<p n="853"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <obscured></obscured>
are 2</note>
Was it or was it not Your intention that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n853-1">Mary Young</rs>
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<lb></lb>
should be brought before the Justice who granted the Warrant</p>
<p n="854">Answer it was</p>
<p n="855"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <obscured></obscured>
are 3</note>
What prevented you from bringing the prisoners before him<lb></lb>
Answer Being Summoned before <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ353">Justice Durden</rs>
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for detaining<lb></lb>
a Bed belonging to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n855-1">Mary Young</rs>
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till she paid me Two Shillings and<lb></lb>
Seven pence which she owed me I and my Wife attended and on our<lb></lb>
entering Mr. Durdens Office found only his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ354">Clerk</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n855-2">Mary Young</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there-the Clerk immediately asked if I had any Warrant against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n855-3">Mary Young</rs>
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being answered Yes-the Clerk said if I did not Send<lb></lb>
immediately for the Constable and the warrant to be heard before his<lb></lb>
Master He would directly send me to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo842">Bridewell</rs>
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Mr. Durden then<lb></lb>
came into the Office and did himself in person order me to go directly<lb></lb>
and fetch the Constable to Serve the warrant on <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n855-4">Mary Young</rs>
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being<lb></lb>
hightened-I went directly and brought the Constable who served it</p>
<p n="856">Mr. Durden then went on the Business of the Sumons<lb></lb>
had the Bed brought to his House and afterwards taken to mine to be<lb></lb>
kept till 2-7 was paid</p>
<p n="857">in regard to the felony my wife produced a Box of mine which had<lb></lb>
been broke open-and a Yard and half of New Ribbon-and three Quarters<lb></lb>
of a Yard of New Cloth (mentined in the Warrant) stolen from thence</p>
<p n="858">The petticoat <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n858-1">Mary Young</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n858-1" type="given" value="Mary"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n858-1" type="surname" value="Young"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n858-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
had upon her</p>
<p n="859">Mr. Durden upon seeing the Box and a Bonded Knife with which<lb></lb>
it was supposed to broke open Asked my wife if she saw <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n859-1">Mary Young</rs>
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<lb></lb>
break it Open-to which she replied no also where she was when it was<lb></lb>
broke Open</p>
<p n="860">She answered she was out with her Milk that she left it safe locked<lb></lb>
and found it broke open upon her return home and the things Stolen<lb></lb>
from it as above</p>
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