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<p n="1345"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo573">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1345-1">Lydia Fowler</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45014_date106">26th. day of April 1769</rs>
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<p n="1346">Who being on Oath says that last Thursday Night between 10 &<lb></lb>
11 o' Clock four persons came into her Room and feloniously<lb></lb>
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wilfully and maliciously cut and destroyed certain Warp prepared<lb></lb>
for the making of Ribbon of Silk mixed with Linen and likewise<lb></lb>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45014_occ175">Loan Tackle</rs>
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and Utensils used in and for the weaving and<lb></lb>
making the said Ribbon of Silk mixed with Linen, and this<lb></lb>
Informant further says that she does suspect and verily believe<lb></lb>
that a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1346-1">William Tilley</rs>
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is one of the four persons who feloniously wilfully & maliciously<lb></lb>
cut and destroyed her said Warp Loom Tackle and Utensils as<lb></lb>
aforesaid for that she then and there saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1346-2">William<lb></lb>
Tilley</rs>
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by the Light of the Moon</p>
<p n="1347">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
April 26th. 1769}</p>
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<p n="1349">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1349-1">Lydia<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Fowler</rs>
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Mark</p>
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