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<p n="137"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx Ss</note>
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The Informacon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50079_n137-1">Anne Steele</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50079_geo78"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50079_geo79"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50079_geo80">Prescott Streete</rs>
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in white Chappell pish</rs>
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in the County of Middx</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50079_occ47">Widdow</rs>
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taken on oath this <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50079_date18">30th day of May<lb></lb>
Anno Dui 1701</rs>
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<p n="138">Who Sayth upon oath yt She had lately att tymes on Severall<lb></lb>
Sundayes Stolne from her Thirty Shillings out of her dressing Box att her<lb></lb>
Lodging Roome Sute att the house of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50079_n138-2">Anno Edwards</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50079_occ48">widdow</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50079_geo81">prescott Streete</rs>
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aforesd att Such tymes She was gone to<lb></lb>
Church And yt thereupon last Easter Sunday this Informt:<lb></lb>
prtending to ye family in the afternoone to goe to Church<lb></lb>
with her Daughter & maid Servt: did privately with her<lb></lb>
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maid Servt: Conceale herselfe in her Roome pposely<lb></lb>
to watch the thiefe And yt within a very Small tyme one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50079_n138-3">Sarah Baxter</rs>
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(nott yett taken) Sister to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50079_n138-1">Anne Edwards</rs>
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& who Prtended to have dined abroad yt day & was abroad<lb></lb>
when She & her maid concealed themselfes aforesd) Came<lb></lb>
up Stayres & opened the dore of her Bedchamber (where<lb></lb>
they concealed ymselfes) with the key thereof wth: hang<lb></lb>
up or lay in the Dining Roome wth. this Informt: Lockt & tooke away<lb></lb>
& the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50079_n138-4">Sarah Baxter</rs>
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did thereupon Imediately goe to this<lb></lb>
Informt: Dressing Box & with a false Key opened the Same<lb></lb>
as she was Laying her hand on the Bag this Informt:<lb></lb>
Seized her ye sd Baxter whereupon this Informt: ex<obscured></obscured>
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agt: the sd Baxter & forthwith<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
was going downe Stayres & as<lb></lb>
She was going downe the aforesd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50079_n138-5">Anne Edwards</rs>
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mett her<lb></lb>
& askt her ye matter, And the sd Edwards<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
said to ye sd<lb></lb>
Baxter<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Say notthing for your life Sarah on words<lb></lb>
to yt effect And likewise She Saith yt the sd Baxter was abd: when<lb></lb>
She went to Conceale her self as aforesd & noe pson then at home but<lb></lb>
the sd Edwards, this Informt: & her sd maid Servt: whereupon<lb></lb>
She this Informt: Suspects the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50079_n138-6">Anne Edwards</rs>
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to be<lb></lb>
Concerned & Confederate together to Steale her sd</p>
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