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<p n="4"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50499_geo3">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50499_n4-1">Eliza: White</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50499_geo4">Mary Bone</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50499_occ2">widow</rs>
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Taken before<lb></lb>
me this 24th.. day of July 1761</p>
<p n="5">Who being upon Oath says that on Sunday the 7th..<lb></lb>
of June last a Person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50499_n5-1">John Steel</rs>
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came to this Informant's House with Mr. Ashley<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50499_occ3">Cheesmonger</rs>
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and Mr. Staples a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50499_occ4">Turner</rs>
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both of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50499_geo5">Bond<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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to Hire a Lodging for said Steel, says said Ashley<lb></lb>
and Staples gave him a Character to this Informant<lb></lb>
says that on Saturday the 13th of said Month of June about<lb></lb>
five o Clock in the Evening the said Steel Rode out upon a<lb></lb>
Horse belonging to her <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50499_occ5">Neighbour</rs>
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Mr. Watkins the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50499_occ6">Butcher</rs>
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and that he returned home a little after 11 the same Evening<lb></lb>
says that when he thus Rode out, he was dressed in a<lb></lb>
blue Surtout Coat and a narrow Gold Lace Hatt now produced<lb></lb>
says that on the Friday following this Informant was out in the<lb></lb>
Afternoon and at her return the same Evening She was Informed<lb></lb>
that said Steel was Rode out again, and says that said Steel did not return that Night, but<lb></lb>
returned on the Saturday Night about 11 o Clock with the aforesaid<lb></lb>
Horse at which time he was dressed in a plain Hatt and blue<lb></lb>
Surtout Coat, says that on the Monday Morning following the said<lb></lb>
Steel left<del>his</del>
her House, saying he was going to Town but returned<lb></lb>
no more, says that after said Steel was gone She saw the Public<lb></lb>
advertiser of that day which her maid had fetched for said Steel<lb></lb>
before he went, in which said Steel appeared to the advertised as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50499_occ7">a<lb></lb>
Highwayman</rs>
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<p n="6">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
24: day of July 1761}<lb></lb>
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