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The Information of
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Who being upon Oath says that yesterday Morning about 9 o'Clock
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came to her
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gave her a Shilling to change
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that having only Half pence in her Pocket she went into the Kitchen
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followed her into the
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Kitchen, Says the Kitchen Door was then locked, that when she went
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her Master's Silver Watch
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was hanging by the fire Side, that she gave the said
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a Sixpence and some half pence in Change, that he then desired this
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in the Kitchen and went into the Dairy which is opposite the Kitchen
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Door to serve a Woman with a half penny worth of Milk, that she came
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coming out of the
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Kitchen, that it being then inclined to rain she asked him if he would
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have his milk in the Kitchen, that he said No and went before her to the
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Cow house where she served him with a second Pint of Milk that she
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immediately returned into the Kitchen and missed the Watch, that no
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and
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herself from the Time she saw the Watch to the Time she missed it
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and that she was not absent above three or four Minutes in
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which Time the Watch was Stolen
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Sworn before me
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Decr. 5th. 1771}
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her
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