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11 Aug. 1789
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The Information of
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servant to
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Richard Saunders
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of
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High Street
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in the said County
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Linnen draper
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taken this 11th day of August 1789
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Who being on her oath saith on Saturday last the 8th Instant about the hour of Five
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in the afternoon The Two persons present who say their names are Sarah Persons and
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Anm Cave came into the shop of the said
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Richard Saunders
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and asked to look at a piece
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at Muslin sufficient to make each of them a cap That she shewed them several pieces of
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Muslin they being very difficult which she laid on the Counter says they agreed to have
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One Yard and half a Yard of one of the said Pieces at three Shillings and ten pence a Yard that
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as she was cutting the said quantity off. the piece, She saw Sarah persons draw something
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from the Counter from under the Muslin she was to cut offSays when cut off she rowled
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it up when one of them laid Two Shillings
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on the Counter, That she went round the Counter
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and found the piece of Muslin produced which had been laying on the Counter when they came
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into the Shop and is of the Value of Twenty five Shillings lying
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under the feet of
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Anm Cave covered with her cloaths as she sat up on a Steel in the ShopSays she is
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positive the said
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Sarah Parsons
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took said piece of Muslin from off the Counter and when
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searched they had not money sufficient to pay for the piece of Muslin of One Yard and
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half which they had agreed to bury
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Taken and Sworn
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The day and year abovementioned
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Before me
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John Staples
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Jane Lane
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Search Parsons
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says she with
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Ann Cave
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went on Saturday afternoon last to buy some
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to buy
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for to make a Cap for each that they looked over two or three bits before
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they cheesed the piece they were to have part off which she paid Two Shillings in past
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intending to call again to pay the remainder says she did not take the piece off the County
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believes the person who cut the muslin off throwed the piece of muslin off the Counter as she
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was shewing the other pieces
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her
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Sarah
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Mark
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says the same as
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has said and that the piece of Muslin
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was not under her Cloaths
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which
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That she told
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Jane Law
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it was on the floor
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Taken Signed and declared to be true
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by the said
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and
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This 11th day of August 1789
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Before me
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