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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n897-1">William Foreman</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n897-2">John Collins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45017_occ175">Headboro</rs>
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: taken before me One of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45017_occ176">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County</p>
<p n="898">Who being upon Oath say And first this<lb></lb>
Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n898-1">William Foreman</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that on the 23d. of February last about One o'Clock <lb></lb>
in the Morning he was Picked up in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo265">Holborn</rs>
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<lb></lb>
by a person now present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n898-2">Ann<lb></lb>
Baker</rs>
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and went home With her to his Lodgings in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo266">Church Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo267">St. Giles</rs>
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<del>and</del>
Undressed himself & went to Bed with her<lb></lb>
and stay'd till about Seven o'Clock she Next<lb></lb>
Morning and saith that when he went to Bed<lb></lb>
he had a Silver Watch Seven Guineas in Gold<lb></lb>
& some Silver in his Breeches Pockets he put<lb></lb>
his Breeches Under the Bolster When he got up<lb></lb>
in the Morning he found his Breeches under the<lb></lb>
Bed and his Watch and all his Money taken away<lb></lb>
and also the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n898-3">Ann Baker</rs>
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gone but does<lb></lb>
not Know what time she got out of Bed or left<lb></lb>
the Room And further saith that he did not see<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n898-4">Ann Baker</rs>
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till she was Apprehended<lb></lb>
last night when she Confessed the taking of the<lb></lb>
said Watch and Money and that she pawned the<lb></lb>
Watch at a pawnbroker on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo268">Saffron Hill</rs>
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And<lb></lb>
this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n898-5">John Collins</rs>
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for himself saith that last<lb></lb>
Night he was the Officer of the Night in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo269">Saint Giles<lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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and when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n898-6">Ann Baker</rs>
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was brough<lb></lb>
into the Watch House she acknowledged the taking<lb></lb>
of the abovementioned Watch and Money and that she<lb></lb>
Pawned the Watch at a pawnbrokers on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo270">Saffron<lb></lb>
Hill</rs>
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in her own Name for One Pound five Shillilngs</p>
<p n="899">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45017_date53">15th. Day of March 1771</rs>
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<p n="901">W Foreman<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n901-1">John Collins</rs>
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