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<p n="1149"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo493">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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The Information of Helen Smith Servant to Doctor Brisbone in Great<lb></lb>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo495">Parish of St Mary</rs>
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le bone in the County of Middx<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ125">Spinster</rs>
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, taken upon Oath this Eleventh Day of April 1772 before Me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1149-1">John Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ126">Esqr</rs>
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. One of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ127">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in & for the said County</p>
<p n="1150">This Informant upon her Oath declareth and Saith,<lb></lb>
That about Two o Clock Yesterday a Person now present who Calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1150-1">John Hamilton</rs>
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called upon this Informant at her said Masters House<lb></lb>
& told this Informant (who was going to leave her place at Dr. Brisbanes)<lb></lb>
that he desired She wou'd go to Enquire after a place he knew of as wou'd<lb></lb>
suit her at No 2. in Warwich Court Holborn directly for that he had received<lb></lb>
a Message Whereby she this Informant was required to be in Warwick Court<lb></lb>
that very Day at 3 o Clock In Consequence of which this Informant went<lb></lb>
there immediately And as <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1150-2">John Hamilton</rs>
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was know to this Informant<lb></lb>
by having lived fellow Servant together at one Mr. Paxton's in Charlotte<lb></lb>
Street she went away for Warwick Court and left <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1150-3">John Hamilton</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
Dr Brisbane's House Alone in Titchfield Sheet AforesaidAnd when<lb></lb>
this Informant came to the place <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1150-4">John Hamilton</rs>
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had recommended her<lb></lb>
to (Viz No.2 in Warwick Court) the Woman who this Informant believes<lb></lb>
is the Mistress of the said House, Opened the Door to her And this Informant<lb></lb>
asked her if Miss White was within (who was the person <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1150-5">John Hamilton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
had recommended her to go to.) The Misstress of the House made Answer<lb></lb>
that Miss White had been gone from there every Since Michaelmas last<lb></lb>
And that during this Informants said Absence from Dr. Brisbane's in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo496">Titchfield Street</rs>
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(There being no other person left in the said Doctors<lb></lb>
House but the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1150-6">John Hamilton</rs>
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) she found at her return there<lb></lb>
that her Box which She swears was safely Locked when she went<lb></lb>
out, had during her Absence been broke open And that one Silk Gown<lb></lb>
One Cotton Gown, One pair of Stays, and Two Silk Handkerchiefs her Goods<lb></lb>
and property had been feloniously taken and Carried away; And that at<lb></lb>
her said return home to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo497">Titchfield Street</rs>
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, there was no <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1150-7">John Hamilton</rs>
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there for he was gone, and had left the Key of the Street Door in the Lock<lb></lb>
on the Outside thereof. And therefore this Informant doth Positively and<lb></lb>
Expressly upon her said Oath charge the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1150-8">John Hamilton</rs>
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with having<lb></lb>
feloniously Stolen and taken and Carried away the said things herein before<lb></lb>
mentioned,</p>
<p n="1151">Signed and sworn before me the said Justice<lb></lb>
at the Public office in ditchfield Street<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date71">11th Day of April 1772</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1151-1">Jno Lane</rs>
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<p n="1152"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1152-1">Hellen Smith</rs>
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