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to wit.
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The Information of Helen Smith Servant to Doctor Brisbone in Great
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le bone in the County of Middx
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, taken upon Oath this Eleventh Day of April 1772 before Me
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. One of his Majesty's
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Justices of the peace
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This Informant upon her Oath declareth and Saith,
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That about Two o Clock Yesterday a Person now present who Calls himself
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called upon this Informant at her said Masters House
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& told this Informant (who was going to leave her place at Dr. Brisbanes)
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that he desired She wou'd go to Enquire after a place he knew of as wou'd
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suit her at No 2. in Warwich Court Holborn directly for that he had received
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a Message Whereby she this Informant was required to be in Warwick Court
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that very Day at 3 o Clock In Consequence of which this Informant went
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there immediately And as
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was know to this Informant
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by having lived fellow Servant together at one Mr. Paxton's in Charlotte
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Street she went away for Warwick Court and left
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Dr Brisbane's House Alone in Titchfield Sheet AforesaidAnd when
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had recommended her
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to (Viz No.2 in Warwick Court) the Woman who this Informant believes
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is the Mistress of the said House, Opened the Door to her And this Informant
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asked her if Miss White was within (who was the person
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had recommended her to go to.) The Misstress of the House made Answer
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that Miss White had been gone from there every Since Michaelmas last
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And that during this Informants said Absence from Dr. Brisbane's in
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(There being no other person left in the said Doctors
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) she found at her return there
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that her Box which She swears was safely Locked when she went
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out, had during her Absence been broke open And that one Silk Gown
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One Cotton Gown, One pair of Stays, and Two Silk Handkerchiefs her Goods
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and property had been feloniously taken and Carried away; And that at
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her said return home to
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there for he was gone, and had left the Key of the Street Door in the Lock
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on the Outside thereof. And therefore this Informant doth Positively and
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Expressly upon her said Oath charge the said
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with having
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feloniously Stolen and taken and Carried away the said things herein before
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mentioned,
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Signed and sworn before me the said Justice
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at the Public office in ditchfield Street
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this
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11th Day of April 1772
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Jno Lane
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