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HSA1679/W/68
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Deposition:Margarette Worledge, Woburn, servant to Hen. Baduly. 3 Oct.1678.
Several times questioned Mary Gray about disappearance of their master's silver cup. The Information of Margarette Worledge of Woburne in the County of Bedd spinster servant to Mr Henry Baduly of Woburne aforesaid Inholder taken upon oath the third day of October Anno dni 1678 before me St John Thomson Esqr one of his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said County This Informant saith that Mary Gray servant to the aforesaid Mr Baduly did upon Monday last, being the last day of September confesse unto this Informant that shee did take a silver cuppe out of a drawer of her master Badulies and did carry the same to her said Master and one Mr Earle into her masters yard to drinke buttered ale therein, and that the said cuppe was there left, and shee this Informant taxinge the said Mary Gray with the same, shee replyed that she did put the same, into her Masters drawer but upon further consideration shee said shee did not know whether she did or noe, and that this Informant might looke it where shee could finde it, and presently went away from her Masters house to one Robert Bushbies and from thence to the widow Fulfords house where shee this Informant demanded of her what shee should doe aboute the said cuppe, and shee replyed what need you trouble yourself with it, yes said this Informant because it wilbee charged upon me; And from thence she went to Edward Gates his house her unckle where this Informant before her said Unckle demanded again of her the said Mary what shee should doe about the said cuppe, and then againe she replied that I might looke it, whereupon her unckle Gates said that it must needs bee betweene them, that is to say this Informant and the said Mary Gray and said that they must be both searched which this Informant desired might be done accordingly as hee had propounded, but the said Mary Gray replyed to her unckle that shee thought that he had had a better opinion of her, and soe presently went into a Hackney choach which carried her to Dunstable, without sufferinge herselfe to bee searched; And this Informant further saith that the friday before there was a silver spoone missing out of the drawer where the plate did usually lye, and that the said Mary Gray beinge asked for it, she did deny it, and said to this Informant that she might looke it, but within twoe hourse after she told her Mistresse that she had it in her pockette and that she kept it on purpose to vex this Informant, and to make her looke up and downe for it, and further saith not. St John Thomson
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