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<p n="25"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlx<lb></lb>
et<lb></lb>
Westmr ss</note>
<lb></lb>
The Deposition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50149_n25-1">Jno Lefeaver</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50149_geo10"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50149_geo11">Newport Street</rs>
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parish St Martins in ye fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50149_occ4">Silver Smith</rs>
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taken on Oath <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50149_date8">16th Day of Decr<lb></lb>
1715</rs>
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<p n="26">Who saith that Wednesday<lb></lb>
night last about the Hours of Six or Seaven one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50149_n26-1">Edward Smith</rs>
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as he verily beleives but being Candle<lb></lb>
light could not be possitive brought three Silver<lb></lb>
Spoons mark'd E. P.S & weighed Six Ounces &<lb></lb>
Seventeen penny weight that he bought them of his & paid him five Shills<lb></lb>
& four pence for Ounce which in all was one<lb></lb>
pound Sixteen Shillings & five pence & that<lb></lb>
on <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50149_date9">Thursday the 15th of this Inst</rs>
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one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50149_n26-2">Charles Royce</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came together with a Woman to this Deponent<lb></lb>
& ask'd him for three silver Spoons which he had<lb></lb>
bought the night before of the Said Smith & yr<lb></lb>
Woman who appears<obscured></obscured>
be Mary the Wife of yr<lb></lb>
Said Smith said to this Deponent that Smith<lb></lb>
her Husband was in Trouble about these Spoons<lb></lb>
& therefore desired he would let her have them<lb></lb>
at the same price he bought them of Smith<lb></lb>
for which he did & further Saith not.</p>
<p n="27">Jurat Coram me<lb></lb>
I Saunders</p>
<p n="28"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50149_n28-1">John Lefabure</rs>
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