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<p n="1262"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1262-1">Stephen<lb></lb>
Kendrick</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1262-2">Arthur Simms</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45013_occ148">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County</p>
<p n="1263">Who being severally upon Oath says and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1263-1">Stephen Kendrick</rs>
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for himself Saith that on Friday the<lb></lb>
17th. Instant he went to Bed about 10 o'Clock and himself<lb></lb>
fastened the outer Door of his House and about the Hour of End<lb></lb>
the same Night he was awaked by the Barking of a Bull<lb></lb>
Bitch which he keeps and came out into a Gallery and saw the<lb></lb>
said outer Door wide open and heard the flittering of Geese and<lb></lb>
heard a Person call the Bitch by her Name and suspecting that<lb></lb>
somebody was stealing his Geese he call'd out stop Thieves and he<lb></lb>
saw a Man came out of the House who very unconcerned asked<lb></lb>
this Informant what was the matter and this Informant saith you<lb></lb>
Thief you are stealing my Geese and said that he thought he knew one of them<lb></lb>
by his Voice to be the other Informant Arther Simms and this Informant<lb></lb>
saith that he heard a Snapping like the Cocking of a Pistol and he was<lb></lb>
then call'd Thief and told him to go in or he would short him and this<lb></lb>
Informant drew himself back and told she person to street and saith that<lb></lb>
other he saw two other Persons and that two of the Geese within his House<lb></lb>
was Stolen. And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1263-2">Arthur Simms</rs>
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for himself saith that<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1263-3">John Randal</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1263-4">William Haughton</rs>
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divers times importuned this<lb></lb>
Informant to go and steal his Master <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1263-5">Stephen Kendricks</rs>
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Fowles and they<lb></lb>
set out together between Eleven & Twelve o'Clock for that purpose & they<lb></lb>
went down <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo465">Fleet Street</rs>
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way and about One o'Clock came to the House of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1263-6">Stephen Kendrick</rs>
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and the said Haughton had a Pistol which he had<lb></lb>
Primed in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo466">Fleet Street</rs>
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and this Informant get over the Rails and opened<lb></lb>
the Outer Door and this Informant, Randal & Haughton went into the House &<lb></lb>
the Bull Bitch Barked he called the Bitch by her Name which same steel quieted<lb></lb>
her and Randal afterwards keept the Bitch quiet and this Informant caught<lb></lb>
two of the Geese and gave them to Haughton who killed them and saith<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
his<lb></lb>
Master being alarm'd came out into the Gallery and this Informant heard ward,<lb></lb>
Pass between she said Haughten and his Master & she said Haughton threatened to<lb></lb>
Street him and upon his Masters crying out stop Thieves they left the<lb></lb>
two Geese just within the Door and went out into Holborn and about Ten Minutes<lb></lb>
they all returned back and this Informant went and formed the Geese and<lb></lb>
delivered one to Haughten & she other to Randal and the Geese were carryed<lb></lb>
to the House of one Mrs. Hall in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo467">Black Boy Alley</rs>
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<p n="1264">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
4th. of December 1769}</p>
<p n="1265"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1265-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1266"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1266-1">Stephen Hendrick</rs>
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<p n="1267">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1267-1">Arthur Simms</rs>
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