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<p n="2745"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2067">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2745-1">Robert Cooper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2068">Charles Street<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ783">Gentleman</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2745-2">Jane Gibbs</rs>
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of the same<lb></lb>
place taken before me the 10th. day of October 1783.</p>
<p n="2746">Who being on Oath saith and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2746-1">Robert Cooper</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that on Monday the 6th. Inst. he this Informant had the Keys of<lb></lb>
a Chest of Drawens (in one of which Drawers was a Box that contained a<lb></lb>
Quantity of Money also a Purse containing one hundred and Twenty Guineas<lb></lb>
and several other Coins) from his Mother in Law Mrs. Gibbs, that a Person came<lb></lb>
to the Door and asked for Informant and he this Informant went into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2069">the<lb></lb>
passage</rs>
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and said about an hour talking with a friend and left a person<lb></lb>
now present who calls herself Honer cullen, his Mother in Laws servant<lb></lb>
in the Room, that he this Informant left the Keys in said Draws in which<lb></lb>
the Money was deposited. That he this Informant saw the One hundred and<lb></lb>
Twenty Guineas in the Draw the said day-That on wednesday the 8th. Inst.<lb></lb>
this Informant went to said Draw and on Counting the Honey found that<lb></lb>
Ten Guineas had been taken out of said Purse and Draw That Mrs. Gibbs his<lb></lb>
Mother in Law on the Money being Missed challenged the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2746-2">Honor Cullen</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who confessed she had taken Money out of said Draw but did not know <lb></lb>
how much. and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2746-3">Jane Gibbs</rs>
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for herself saith that she had<lb></lb>
deposited in a Box in the same Draw about forty Guineas That she this<lb></lb>
Informant saw the said forty Guineas on Monday the 6th. Instant. that on<lb></lb>
Wednesday the 8th. Inst. on this Informants going to said Draw on taking up<lb></lb>
the Box found it was very light and on Examining said Box found there had<lb></lb>
been taken out of said Box Twenty Guineas on which this Informant challenge<lb></lb>
her servant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2746-4">Honor Cullen</rs>
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who immediately confessed she had taken money<lb></lb>
out of said Box but did not know how much but returned to this Informant<lb></lb>
Eleven Guineas and a half and bigged this Informant not to have her taken<lb></lb>
into custody.</p>
<p n="2747">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
10th. day of October 1783}</p>
<p n="2748"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2748-1">Sampr Wright</rs>
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<p n="2749"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2749-1">Robt. Cooper</rs>
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<p n="2750"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2750-1">Jean Gills</rs>
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