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<p n="982"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo467">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n982-1">James Porton</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 4th. day of March 1768</p>
<p n="983">Who being upon Oath says that he lives in Quiet Row <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo468">White chapel</rs>
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says that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n983-1">Charlotte Smith</rs>
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lodges in his house, that the said Charlotte<lb></lb>
and a person now present who calls herself Mary Colston brought a<lb></lb>
person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n983-2">George Ryley</rs>
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into his house on Ask<lb></lb>
Wednesday at Night, that they went all three into the said Charlotte's Room<lb></lb>
that in a little time this Informant heard a Noise (being then in Company<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n983-3">John Waters</rs>
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now in Custody) whereupon they went into the room from<lb></lb>
whence the said Noise came and found the aforesaid Ryley<lb></lb>
complaining of having been Robbed of his Watch, upon which<lb></lb>
Informt. desired them, the two aforesaid Women to return the Watch<lb></lb>
to said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n983-4">George Ryley</rs>
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instead of which, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n983-5">Charlotte Smith</rs>
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gave<lb></lb>
it privately to said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n983-6">John Waters</rs>
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and that he this Informant the next<lb></lb>
Morning rced. the said Watch from said waters with directions<lb></lb>
to Pawn it, says he did not Pawn it himself but sent it to Pledge<lb></lb>
by Elizabeth Sevier now present, and waited in the Street at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo469">Shoreditch</rs>
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near Mrs.<lb></lb>
Matham's Pawn brokers there, whilst said Sevier Pledged<lb></lb>
said Watch with her, says after this he this Informt. Conducted<lb></lb>
her to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n983-7">John Waters</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo470">Weavers Arms in Shoreditch</rs>
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where he<lb></lb>
was waiting for Informt. by appointment where and sixteen Shillings<lb></lb>
for which said Watch was Pledged was equally divided between<lb></lb>
said Waters and this Informant</p>
<p n="984"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n984-1">James Porton</rs>
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