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<p n="3043"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo1086">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3043-1">Thomas Grindall</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 12th. day of October 1770</p>
<p n="3044">Who being upon Oath says that he knows one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-1">John Joseph Defoe</rs>
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otherwise<lb></lb>
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Smith one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-2">John Clark</rs>
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, one Jones otherwise Ives, says that a few<lb></lb>
days ago he bought a Silver horizontal Watch Maker Ellicott of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-3">John Joseph Defoe</rs>
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at a Publick house near Marybone and that the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-4">John<lb></lb>
Clark</rs>
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was in another Room in the same house at the Time, and that<lb></lb>
the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-5">John Clark</rs>
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was in Company with them both before and after<lb></lb>
the buying of the Watch, says that a Month or six Weeks ago he<lb></lb>
bought a Gold repeating Watch of the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-6">John Clark</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
Lodgings of the Said Clark in Wells Street, says that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-7">Mary Kirby</rs>
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was in<lb></lb>
an adjoining Room in the Same house at the Time, says that he has sold<lb></lb>
the Said Gold Repeater to Mr. Plumley of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo1087">Ludgate hill</rs>
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a Goldsmith for £18,<lb></lb>
says that Some time before the last mentioned Bargain he bought a Gold<lb></lb>
Watch of the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-8">John Joseph Defoe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-9">John Clark</rs>
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, Jones otherwise Ives at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo1088">the Brown Bear in the Strand</rs>
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, says that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-10">James Stamford</rs>
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was also present,<lb></lb>
says he has sold the Said Gold Watch to Mr. Stogdale of Maiden Lane,<lb></lb>
says that some time before the last mentioned Affair he bought a Metal Watch<lb></lb>
of the Said Defoe at the Wrekin in Broad Court says that the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-11">John Clark</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Jones otherwise Ives, the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-12">James Stamford</rs>
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and a Girl when this Informant<lb></lb>
believes to be Jones's Sister were all present, says he has pledged the said<lb></lb>
Watch with Mr. Noon of Butcher Row, says some time ago he bought a<lb></lb>
Silver hilted Sword of the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-13">John Clark</rs>
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at his Lodgings in Wells Strid<lb></lb>
which is in Pledge in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo1089">Princes Street</rs>
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at Murthwaite's says some time ago<lb></lb>
he bought a small Gold Watch of the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-14">John Clark</rs>
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at his Lodgings in<lb></lb>
Wyche Street which he pledged in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo1090">Wych Street</rs>
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& sold the Duplicate to Mr<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Stogdale, says that one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3044-15">Richard Rook</rs>
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introduced this Informant to the<lb></lb>
Said Clark & as he believes had part of the Money for which the Watch<lb></lb>
Was pledged, says he had a Silver Watch of the Said Clark at the Same time<lb></lb>
which he pledged at Tucker's in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo1091">Drury Lane</rs>
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and has since sold the<lb></lb>
Duplicate to a Stranger,</p>
<p n="3045">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
October 12th. 1770}<lb></lb>
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<p n="3046"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n3046-1">Thos Grindall</rs>
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