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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1-1">Elizabeth Crowd</rs>
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is of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo2">Chancery Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ1">Spinster</rs>
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taken before me this 26th: day of January 1781</p>
<p n="2">Who being Upon Oath says that on Wednesday Evening last<lb></lb>
she got into the Hackney Coach No. 758 drove by a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2-1">Henry Able</rs>
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at the end of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo3">Black Swan</rs>
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Court in Saint<lb></lb>
Pauls Church Yard-The before she got into his Coach she<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
desired<lb></lb>
him to assist in putting<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
her Chest containing a Quantity of Wearing<lb></lb>
Appaul into his said Coach, which he did and put her said Box<lb></lb>
into the same-That she then desired him to desire her to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo4">Chancery<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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and on her coming to her Master house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo5">Chancery Lane</rs>
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she got<lb></lb>
out of said Coach (at which time the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2-2">Henry Abel</rs>
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was got from<lb></lb>
off his Coach Box) and was standing by the side of his said Coach<lb></lb>
says that she went into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo6">the Passage</rs>
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of her said Master House<lb></lb>
(leasing her Box in the said Coach) and as she verily believes both<lb></lb>
the Coach Doors shut, and did not contain above two Minutes<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo7">the Passage</rs>
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of the House-That she returned to the Coach with<lb></lb>
intention of having her Box taken out and put into her Master house<lb></lb>
and saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2-3">Henry Abel</rs>
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Still standing by the side of his<lb></lb>
said Coach and on her looking into the Coach found that the said<lb></lb>
Box was Stolen away-Says that from her hasing left the Coachman<lb></lb>
Standing by this Coach, and on her return finding him in the same<lb></lb>
situation and her having staid so short a time in her said<lb></lb>
Masters hourd, that the said Abel must have seen the person who<lb></lb>
Stole the same, as well as from other Circumstances she doth<lb></lb>
verily believe and suspect that he the said Abel feloniously<lb></lb>
Stole her said Box of Wearing Appeal</p>
<p n="3">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
26th. day of Jany. 1781}<lb></lb>
W Addington</p>
<p n="4">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n4-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Crorsdis<lb></lb>
Mark</rs>
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