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of the same place taken on Oath
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before me one of His Majestys Justices
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And first and
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Charles Earle
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of the said Parish Beadle she said
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Elizabeth Law
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in Company with a Woman who
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says her Name is
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Ann Onion
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came into her shop in
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. That there was on the Counter in the said Shop one
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piece of Printed Cotton about five yard in Length Value Seven
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Shillings that this Informant shewed them several Pieces of
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Printed Linnen and Cotton which the said
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and Shaw
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did not like-That this Informant suspecting that
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had Stolen some of her Property, Searched her and found concealed under her
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Petticoats The said piece of Printed Cotton now produced and the said
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for herself says she was present when her mother Elizabeth
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took the said piece of printed Cotton from under the Petticoats of the
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at first denyed her taking the said Piece of
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Cotton from off the Counter that she took it from off the Flour but
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soon afterward the said
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said if she did take it
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as this Informant believes she meant from off the Counter she hoped
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her Mother would forgive her, and the said
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Charles Earle
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and that they had only Two pence farthing between them
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March 27th. 1781}
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John Staples
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