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<p n="1362">11 Aug. 1789</p>
<p n="1363"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo856">Middlesex</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1363-1">Jane Laws</rs>
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servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1363-2">Richard Saunders</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo857">Whitechapel<lb></lb>
High Street</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ266">Linnen draper</rs>
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taken this 11th day of August 1789<lb></lb>
Who being on her oath saith on Saturday last the 8th Instant about the hour of Five<lb></lb>
in the afternoon The Two persons present who say their names are Sarah Persons and<lb></lb>
Anm Cave came into the shop of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1363-3">Richard Saunders</rs>
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and asked to look at a piece<lb></lb>
at Muslin sufficient to make each of them a cap That she shewed them several pieces of<lb></lb>
Muslin they being very difficult which she laid on the Counter says they agreed to have<lb></lb>
One Yard and half a Yard of one of the said Pieces at three Shillings and ten pence a Yard that<lb></lb>
as she was cutting the said quantity off. the piece, She saw Sarah persons draw something<lb></lb>
from the Counter from under the Muslin she was to cut offSays when cut off she rowled<lb></lb>
it up when one of them laid Two Shillings<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
on the Counter, That she went round the Counter<lb></lb>
and found the piece of Muslin produced which had been laying on the Counter when they came<lb></lb>
into the Shop and is of the Value of Twenty five Shillings lying<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
under the feet of<lb></lb>
Anm Cave covered with her cloaths as she sat up on a Steel in the ShopSays she is<lb></lb>
positive the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1363-4">Sarah Parsons</rs>
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took said piece of Muslin from off the Counter and when<lb></lb>
searched they had not money sufficient to pay for the piece of Muslin of One Yard and<lb></lb>
half which they had agreed to bury</p>
<p n="1364">Taken and Sworn<lb></lb>
The day and year abovementioned<lb></lb>
Before me</p>
<p n="1365"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1365-1">John Staples</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1366"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1366-1">Jane Lane</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1367"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1367-1">Search Parsons</rs>
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says she with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1367-2">Ann Cave</rs>
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went on Saturday afternoon last to buy some<lb></lb>
Muslin<del>to buy</del>
for to make a Cap for each that they looked over two or three bits before<lb></lb>
they cheesed the piece they were to have part off which she paid Two Shillings in past<lb></lb>
intending to call again to pay the remainder says she did not take the piece off the County<lb></lb>
believes the person who cut the muslin off throwed the piece of muslin off the Counter as she<lb></lb>
was shewing the other pieces</p>
<p n="1368">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1368-1">Sarah<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Parsons</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1369"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1369-1">Arm Cave</rs>
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says the same as <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1369-2">Sarah Parsons</rs>
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has said and that the piece of Muslin<lb></lb>
was not under her Cloaths<del>which</del>
That she told <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1369-3">Jane Law</rs>
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it was on the floor</p>
<p n="1370">Taken Signed and declared to be true<lb></lb>
by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1370-1">Sarah Parsons</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1370-2">Arm Cave</rs>
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This 11th day of August 1789<lb></lb>
Before me</p>
<p n="1371"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1371-1">John Staples</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1372">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1372-1">Arm<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Cave</rs>
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Mark</p>
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