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The Information of
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before me this 22nd. day of July 1789
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Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said
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Maria
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Brown
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for herself saith that between the Hours of Five and Six
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o'Clock in the afternoon of Monday last two
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Men came to this Informants
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house in
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to Enquire for Lodgings and one of them said
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they
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be wanted
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a first Floor for his Uncle who lived at Ealing, upon which she desired
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said, Men to Walk up stairs, when upon turning round and seeing
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but one of them with her she said I thought there was another
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Gentleman
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with you, who replied there was and said Man then
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called to his Companion to know if he was comming up who answered
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I am comming Presently, but did not come up that after Informant
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had shewed the appartments she returned down stairs following
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the Man who had been up stairs with her, and when she came
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to the foot of the stairs she saw the person who had remained below
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standing at the first Parlour Door,
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to whom the person who had
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see the
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upon which they wished her a
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good day and promised to call on he again at four o'Clock
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the next afternoon
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That upon a Side Board in the front
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Parlour stood a Mahogany Case in which about an hour before
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said Men came to her house were Five Silver Table Spoons
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she having had occasion to Notice them at That Time, that soon
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after said her had left the house, her Servant
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Hannah Haram
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told his Informant that the Spoons were gone from the
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Case which upon Search the found to be trueAnd then Informant
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further Saith that a person now present who calls himself
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John Beale
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is one of the Two Persons who so came to her
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house to Enquire for Lodgings and who remained below while
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the other Man Viewed the Appartments and is the Man who
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upon her return down Stairs she saw standing at the pont parlour
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DoorAnd the said
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Hannah Haram
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pr herself saith that
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she is Servant to the Informant
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Maria Brown
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, that on Monday
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last between the Hours of Five and Six oClock in the afternoon
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Two Men applied at her Mistresses house and Enquired for Lodgings
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that she called her Mistresses to them and immediately went into the
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Kitchen
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