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<p n="1181"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo508">Middlesex</rs>
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To Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1181-1">Jane Shields</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date76">20th day of April 1772</rs>
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<p n="1182">Who being upon Oath says that she lives in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo509">Martlett Court</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo510">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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that on Saturday<lb></lb>
night last between Eleven & twelve o Clock as she was in<lb></lb>
her Kitchen Ironing, she heard a Noise overhead in the Parlour<lb></lb>
and thought it was the Cat says she came up into the<lb></lb>
Parlour with a Candle in her hand, where she saw a<lb></lb>
Person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1182-1">Joseph Lunn</rs>
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. Says<lb></lb>
as soon as she came into the room he Escaped out of<lb></lb>
the Window which was Open, that she then Pursued him<lb></lb>
and he was Immediately apprehendedSays that she herself<lb></lb>
Shut down the Windows of that Parlour in the day time &<lb></lb>
put a blind before it on the InsideSays that the Window<lb></lb>
was Shut and the Blind in its proper place when she went<lb></lb>
into the Kitchen. Says that a part of the Wood was burnt<lb></lb>
in the Window where said Lunn or his Companions<lb></lb>
had fixed a Candle Says that said Lunn came in at<lb></lb>
the said Window by opening the same with an Intention to<lb></lb>
rob the said RoomSays he had begun to remove a<lb></lb>
Glass in said Room</p>
<p n="1183">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
April 20. 1772}</p>
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<p n="1185">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1185-1">Jane<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Shields</rs>
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Mark</p>
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