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The Information of
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Eleanor Mills
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David Mills
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taken before
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me one of his Majestys
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Justices of the
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acting in and for the said County
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Who being upon Oath saith that she
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lives Servant at the Blakeney's head (a public
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Rosemary Lane
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that one
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Sunday night the 15th of December instant she
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carried a pot of Beer and Silver for half a
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Guinea to a house in the said Street that she
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delivered the Silver and took the half Guinea
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but her hands being cold she puts the sd. half
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Guinea upon the Table in the sd House whilst
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she warned herself that being in a hurry
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she ran out of the house and left the
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half Guinea lying upon the Table but
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had not gone far before she remembered
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she had le first and went back to look
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for it but could not find it, And this
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Informant further saith that at the time and
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during the whole of the aforesd, Transaction
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there was no other Persons there but the two
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Ann Gould
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Mary Somers
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except the Man
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who gave her the half Guinea and who is a
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foreigner and cannot speak English and whom this Informt. doth not suspect from which
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Circumstances this Informant upon her Oath
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verily believes that the said
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Mary Somers
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are the only persons who feloniously
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took and Carried away the half Guinea as aforesd.
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Taken & Sworn before me the 17th. of Decemtr. 1782}
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Jno. Sherwood
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Eleanor
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Mills
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