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<p n="220"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo181">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n220-1">Benjamin Blackman</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo182">Uxbridge</rs>
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in the said County Waggoner and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n220-2">Elizabeth Parrott</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ43">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n220-3">John Aldridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Land lord of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo183">the Plough at Kensington</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Grewel Pits taken before me this 3rd. day<lb></lb>
of January 1783</p>
<p n="221">Who being upon Oath says and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n221-1">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Blackman</rs>
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says that on Friday Night the 27th. of December last<lb></lb>
he went to the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n221-2">John Aldridge</rs>
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to SleepThat<lb></lb>
said Aldridge told him that he might sleep there but that if<lb></lb>
he did, he must sleep with a Man who was gone to Bed<lb></lb>
That about 12 o Clock he was lighted up by said Aldridge to<lb></lb>
a Dining Room, in which Room was a Bed and a Person<lb></lb>
in bedThat he locked the Door and went to Bed at<lb></lb>
which time he had in his Pocket sixteen shillings and<lb></lb>
a Silver WatchThat he slept till 5 o Clock the next<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Morning and when he awoke he found himself alone,<lb></lb>
the Door unlocked and wide open and the Person with<lb></lb>
whom he had slept gone, That he searched his Breeches<lb></lb>
and his said Money and Watch was<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
also gone<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n221-3">Elizabeth Parrott</rs>
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says that a person now<lb></lb>
present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n221-4">Mary Pile</rs>
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came to this<lb></lb>
Informants said Masters House to sleep there (at which<lb></lb>
time she was dressed in Mens Apparel and this Informant<lb></lb>
understand her to be a Man) That She lighted the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n221-5">Mary Pile</rs>
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to Bed in the said Dining Room where she<lb></lb>
slept all NightThat in a Closet in said Dining Room<lb></lb>
were two thread laced Capsa worked Muslin laced Handker-<lb></lb>
-chief a Muslin Apron three other Caps and two<lb></lb>
neck Handkerchiefs That about 5 o Clock in the morning<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n221-6">Benjamin Blackman</rs>
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came to this Informant<lb></lb>
and said that he had been robbed of his Watch and</p>
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