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taken before me this
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fourth day of March 1783
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Mary Lever
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says that she went about a fortnight ago to lodge with one Mrs
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Hughes in the Garret at No. 2 in
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White Hart
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she sat up all Night and the next Morning set off to her
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Brothers at
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(having her said Boxes and
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about a Week and when
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she returned she found all her things safe That as she
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was coming down stairs from the said Mrs. Hughes's Room she
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saw a Person now present who calls herself
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That she went into said Ann Witneys Room the Parlour
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in said House and asked her if she knew where she could
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lodge, That she told her she could notThat she this
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Informant then asked said
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if she could shep
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in her Room that Night and that in the morning she
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told
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her she might Sleep there for a fortnight if she pleand
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she didThat she slept with said
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three
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Nights and the next Morning she told the said
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that she was going to her Brothers and should
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not return till next day That when she went away to go
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to
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, another Soldier & the said
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and another Woman now present who
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calls herself
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were in the said Parlour
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