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<p n="1106"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo473">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1106-1">Elizabeth Bacon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1106-2">Thomas Lyons</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ116">Headborough</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me One of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ117">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="1107">Who severally being upon Oath say and first this<lb></lb>
Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1107-1">Elizabeth Bacon</rs>
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for herself saith<lb></lb>
that a Person now present who calls herself Margt.<lb></lb>
Sunderland lodged with her & did some little things<lb></lb>
for her in the House about a fortnight ago<lb></lb>
this Informt. Missed Nine Sheet & Upon Charging<lb></lb>
the said Margaret with them she confessed that<lb></lb>
She had Stolen them & had Sold them to a person<lb></lb>
now present who calls herself Ann Shorthouse<lb></lb>
and had received Six Shillings & Six pence<lb></lb>
for them whereas in truth & in fact the said<lb></lb>
Sheets were worth twenty four Shillings &<lb></lb>
upward this Informt. further saith that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1107-2">Margt Sunderland</rs>
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went with her to the House<lb></lb>
of the said Ann Shorthouse where she found One<lb></lb>
of the said Sheet now produced & she then denied<lb></lb>
having any other Sheet of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1107-3">Margaret<lb></lb>
Sunderland</rs>
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other than the said One Sheets that<lb></lb>
about Eight Days after this Informt. obtained<lb></lb>
a Search Warrant. & Searched that House of the<lb></lb>
Said Ann Shorthouse & there found another Old<lb></lb>
Sheet cut to piece which she knows to be her<lb></lb>
Property & which was lodged in a Chest<del> <obscured></obscured>
hence</del>
<lb></lb>
Where three pair & a half of the other Sheets so Stolen<lb></lb>
as aforesaid were Lodged & further saith that<lb></lb>
from the Miserable & Ragged Condition the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1107-4">Margaret Sunderland</rs>
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was in at the time she Sold<lb></lb>
the said Sheets to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1107-5">Ann Shorthouse</rs>
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<lb></lb>
& the Small Price she gave for them believes the said<lb></lb>
Ann Shorthouse must know that they were<lb></lb>
Stolen And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1107-6">Thomas Lyons</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself saith that in Executing the said<lb></lb>
Search Warrant he found the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Old Sheet<lb></lb>
Pnt in piece now produced an claimed by the other Informant<lb></lb>
in the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1107-7">Ann Shorthouse</rs>
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<p n="1108">Severally Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date64">4th. Day of April 1772</rs>
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<p n="1109"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1109-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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<p n="1110">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1110-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Bacon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1111"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1111-1">Thos Lyon</rs>
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