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for stealing ten pewter plates, value 5 s. and a sheet, value 5 s.
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the property of
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May the 2d
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Mrs. Collins sworn.
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Q. Are you any relation to Mr.
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Collins. He married my mother.
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[The plates and sheet were produced.]
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Q. Do you know these goods to be Mr. Smith's?
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Collins. I know the sheet to be Mr.
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Q. Do you know the plates to be Mr. Smith's?
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Collins. As to this plate I am very sure, because it was my mother's when she was a widow; and as to the others, I do believe them to be our plates, for we have others of the same mark now; we bought them at a sale.
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Q. Where do you live?
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Collins. Mr. Smith keep the n Coffee-house by the Royal Exchange .
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Q. What is the Prisoner ?
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Collins . She was our servant.
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Q. When did she come to live with you?
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Collins . The Monday after the fire .
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Q. How long did she live with your father?
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Collins. Till the 27th of April.
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Q. How came she to go then?
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Collins. Because we thought she was not honest: we turned her away on suspicion, before the things were found; we found them at Mr. Worral's, a pawn-broker.
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Mr. Glover . I am a lodger at Mr. Smith's; the Prisoner was suspected of being dishonest; I had missed some of my own things, and went to enquire after them, and these plates were at Mr. Worral's , and I heard the Prisoner say, that she took them out of Mr. Smith's house, and pawned them at Mr. Worral's.
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Prisoner . I did not say, Mr. Glover , that I knew any thing of the plates .
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. These plates and sheet were brought to me on the 19th of April, by
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the Prisoner.
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Q. Where do you live?
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Worral. In Houndsditch. I have known the Prisoner seven or eight years, and I have taken things in of her several times.
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Q. Was she ever a house-keeper in that time?
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Worral. No: I knew her as a servant.
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Q. Did you take these things in all together?
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Worral . Yes: I took the plates and sheet in all together. Mr. Glover came to me to enquire for a shirt, and some other things, and I brought these plates down without being asked for them.
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Q. to Mr. Glover. Have you paid the money for these things?
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Glover . Yes, I have; because Mr. Worral was so very civil as to bring them down without their being asked for.
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Prisoner . Pray, Miss , did not my mistress say, she did not know all her plates?
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Collins. She did not know them all.
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