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taken before me One of His Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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for the said City
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and Liberty
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Who being upon Oath saith that she lives in Shorts
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Gardens in
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for about Seven Years
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that sometime before Christmas day last she said
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called at this Informants House
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her to give him the Cash for it but she not having
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so much in the House she went out to ask
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Whether the Nots was a good one when being
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fourteen Pounds and that her Husband
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would give him the remainder that Night or the
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Next morning this Informant further saith
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that some few days after her Husband brought
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home several Bank Notes in a red Pocket Book
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but to whas amount this Informant cannot say
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telling her that he had Cashed those Notes for
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got into a Public House that she gave her
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Husband the twenty Pound Note abovementioned
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on which she had advanced the fourteen pounds
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and saw him put the same into the Pocket Book
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with the others and this Informant further saith
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that she verily believes the whole of the Bank Note
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found in her House at the time it was searched
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and now produced did belong to and were the property
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Sworn the 5th. day of February 1782
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before me
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Geo: Reid}
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Elezbeth Wells
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