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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1-1">Margaret Williams</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date3">5th. day of <lb></lb>
December 1771</rs>
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<p n="2">Who being upon Oath says that yesterday Morning about 9 o'Clock<lb></lb>
a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-1">William Clayton</rs>
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came to her<lb></lb>
Master's house to drink some Milk, that at this Time she was in the<lb></lb>
Cow house milking the Cow and that no person to her knowledge was<lb></lb>
in her Master's house, says that she gave the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-2">William Clayton</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
Pint of Milk, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-3">William Clayton</rs>
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gave her a Shilling to change<lb></lb>
that having only Half pence in her Pocket she went into the Kitchen<lb></lb>
for a Sixpence, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-4">William Clayton</rs>
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followed her into the<lb></lb>
Kitchen, Says the Kitchen Door was then locked, that when she went<lb></lb>
into the Kitchen with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-5">William Clayton</rs>
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her Master's Silver Watch<lb></lb>
was hanging by the fire Side, that she gave the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-6">William Clayton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a Sixpence and some half pence in Change, that he then desired this<lb></lb>
Informant to give him another Pint of Milk. that she then left the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-7">William<lb></lb>
Clayton</rs>
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in the Kitchen and went into the Dairy which is opposite the Kitchen<lb></lb>
Door to serve a Woman with a half penny worth of Milk, that she came<lb></lb>
out of the Dairy and met the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-8">William Clayton</rs>
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coming out of the<lb></lb>
Kitchen, that it being then inclined to rain she asked him if he would<lb></lb>
have his milk in the Kitchen, that he said No and went before her to the<lb></lb>
Cow house where she served him with a second Pint of Milk that she<lb></lb>
immediately returned into the Kitchen and missed the Watch, that no<lb></lb>
person was in the Kitchen except the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2-9">William Clayton</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
herself from the Time she saw the Watch to the Time she missed it<lb></lb>
and that she was not absent above three or four Minutes in<lb></lb>
which Time the Watch was Stolen</p>
<p n="3">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
Decr. 5th. 1771}</p>
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<p n="5">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n5-1">Margaret<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Williams</rs>
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Mark</p>
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