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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1301-1">Maria Brown</rs>
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of No. 5 in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo826">Cecil Street in the Strand</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1301-2">Hannah<lb></lb>
Haram</rs>
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of the Same place <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ253">Spinster</rs>
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Taken<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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before me this 22nd. day of July 1789</p>
<p n="1302">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1302-1">Maria<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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for herself saith that between the Hours of Five and Six <lb></lb>
o'Clock in the afternoon of Monday last two<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Men came to this Informants <lb></lb>
house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo827">Cecil Street</rs>
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to Enquire for Lodgings and one of them said<del>they</del>
be wanted<lb></lb>
a first Floor for his Uncle who lived at Ealing, upon which she desired <lb></lb>
said, Men to Walk up stairs, when upon turning round and seeing <lb></lb>
but one of them with her she said I thought there was another <lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ254">Gentleman</rs>
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with you, who replied there was and said Man then <lb></lb>
called to his Companion to know if he was comming up who answered <lb></lb>
I am comming Presently, but did not come up that after Informant <lb></lb>
had shewed the appartments she returned down stairs following <lb></lb>
the Man who had been up stairs with her, and when she came <lb></lb>
to the foot of the stairs she saw the person who had remained below <lb></lb>
standing at the first Parlour Door,<del>to whom the person who had<lb></lb>
see the </del>
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upon which they wished her a<lb></lb>
good day and promised to call on he again at four o'Clock <lb></lb>
the next afternoon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
That upon a Side Board in the front <lb></lb>
Parlour stood a Mahogany Case in which about an hour before <lb></lb>
said Men came to her house were Five Silver Table Spoons <lb></lb>
she having had occasion to Notice them at That Time, that soon<lb></lb>
after said her had left the house, her Servant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1302-2">Hannah Haram</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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told his Informant that the Spoons were gone from the <lb></lb>
Case which upon Search the found to be trueAnd then Informant <lb></lb>
further Saith that a person now present who calls himself <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1302-3">John Beale</rs>
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is one of the Two Persons who so came to her <lb></lb>
house to Enquire for Lodgings and who remained below while <lb></lb>
the other Man Viewed the Appartments and is the Man who<lb></lb>
upon her return down Stairs she saw standing at the pont parlour <lb></lb>
DoorAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1302-4">Hannah Haram</rs>
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pr herself saith that <lb></lb>
she is Servant to the Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1302-5">Maria Brown</rs>
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, that on Monday<lb></lb>
last between the Hours of Five and Six oClock in the afternoon<lb></lb>
Two Men applied at her Mistresses house and Enquired for Lodgings <lb></lb>
that she called her Mistresses to them and immediately went into the<lb></lb>
Kitchen</p>
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