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<p n="437"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo271">Middlesex</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n437-1">Elizabeth Law</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo272">St. Mary Whitechapel</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ75">Linnen Draper</rs>
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and her Daughter <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n437-2">Jane<lb></lb>
Law</rs>
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of the same place taken on Oath<lb></lb>
before me one of His Majestys Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace in and for the said County</p>
<p n="438">And first and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-1">Charles Earle</rs>
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of the said Parish Beadle she said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-2">Elizabeth Law</rs>
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for herself says that this<lb></lb>
afternoon about the Hour of four a Woman who<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
says her<lb></lb>
name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-3">Elizabeth Jackson</rs>
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in Company with a Woman who<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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says her Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-4">Ann Onion</rs>
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and a Girl who says her<lb></lb>
name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-5">Ann Shaw</rs>
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came into her shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo273">Whitechapel High Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and asked for to look at some points for to make a Bed Gown<lb></lb>
for <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-6">Ann Shaw</rs>
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. That there was on the Counter in the said Shop one<lb></lb>
piece of Printed Cotton about five yard in Length Value Seven<lb></lb>
Shillings that this Informant shewed them several Pieces of <lb></lb>
Printed Linnen and Cotton which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-7">Jackson, Onion</rs>
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and Shaw<lb></lb>
did not like-That this Informant suspecting that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-8">Elizabeth Jackson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
had Stolen some of her Property, Searched her and found concealed under her<lb></lb>
Petticoats The said piece of Printed Cotton now produced and the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-9">Jane Law</rs>
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for herself says she was present when her mother Elizabeth<lb></lb>
took the said piece of printed Cotton from under the Petticoats of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-10">Elizabeth Jackson</rs>
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at first denyed her taking the said Piece of<lb></lb>
Cotton from off the Counter that she took it from off the Flour but<lb></lb>
soon afterward the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-11">Elizabeth Jackson</rs>
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said if she did take it<lb></lb>
as this Informant believes she meant from off the Counter she hoped<lb></lb>
her Mother would forgive her, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-12">Charles Earle</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that he searched the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-13">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Jackson</rs>
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The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-14">Ann Onion</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n438-15">Ann Shaw</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and that they had only Two pence farthing between them<lb></lb>
all</p>
<p n="439">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
March 27th. 1781}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n439-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="440"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n440-1">Eliz: Law</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n440-2">Jane Law</rs>
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