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<p n="2409"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo954">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2409-1">Eleanor Roche</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45022_date211">1st day of June 1774</rs>
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<p n="2410">Who being upon Oath says that on Saturday Evening the 21st.<lb></lb>
of May last she was at the Apartments of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2410-1">Catherine Smith</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
present, that about ten 'o'Clock a person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2410-2">John Rann</rs>
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came to the said Catherine Smith's in a Coach<lb></lb>
with Boots on , that the said John Rann and the said Catherine<lb></lb>
Smith went into the said Catherine Smith's Bed Room together,<lb></lb>
that some little Time afterwards the same Evening the said Catherine<lb></lb>
Smith told this Informant that the said John Rann had given her<lb></lb>
five Guineas in Money and a Watch, that the next Morning the<lb></lb>
said Catherine Smith shewed<del>told</del>
this Informant a Silver Watch in a<lb></lb>
black Shagreen Case now produced and told her that was the<lb></lb>
Watch that the said John Rann had given her over night, that<lb></lb>
on the Monday Evening following some Officers came to search<lb></lb>
the said Catherine Smiths' Apartments at which time the said<lb></lb>
Catherine Smith had the said Watch by her side, that the said<lb></lb>
Catherine Smith gave the said Watch to this Informant and She<lb></lb>
put it under the Cover of a Chair, that on Wednesday last the<lb></lb>
said Catherine Smith's Servant Margaret delivered the said Watch<lb></lb>
to this Informant who carried it to Mr. Allam the Watchmaker,<lb></lb>
and this Informant further says that on the above mentioned<lb></lb>
Saturday the said Catherine Smith told this Informant that<lb></lb>
the said John Rann<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
was gone out to rob on the<lb></lb>
Highway and that she expected him home with some Money</p>
<p n="2411">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
June 1 1774}</p>
<p n="2412"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2412-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="2413">her<lb></lb>
Eleanor<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Roche<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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