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The Informacon of
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taken on oath this
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30th day of May
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Anno Dui 1701
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Who Sayth upon oath yt She had lately att tymes on Severall
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Sundayes Stolne from her Thirty Shillings out of her dressing Box att her
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Lodging Roome Sute att the house of
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aforesd att Such tymes She was gone to
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Church And yt thereupon last Easter Sunday this Informt:
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prtending to ye family in the afternoone to goe to Church
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with her Daughter & maid Servt: did privately with her
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maid Servt: Conceale herselfe in her Roome pposely
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to watch the thiefe And yt within a very Small tyme one
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up Stayres & opened the dore of her Bedchamber (where
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did thereupon Imediately goe to this
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Informt: Dressing Box & with a false Key opened the Same
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as she was Laying her hand on the Bag this Informt:
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Seized her ye sd Baxter whereupon this Informt: ex
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agt: the sd Baxter & forthwith
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was going downe Stayres & as
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said to ye sd
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Baxter
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Say notthing for your life Sarah on words
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to yt effect And likewise She Saith yt the sd Baxter was abd: when
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She went to Conceale her self as aforesd & noe pson then at home but
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the sd Edwards, this Informt: & her sd maid Servt: whereupon
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She this Informt: Suspects the said
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to be
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