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<p n="1389"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo600">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1389-1">Alexander Hart</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45021_occ244">Esqr</rs>
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taken before me the 9th. day of November 1774</p>
<p n="1390">Who being upon Oath says that some time ago a Gold ring with a<lb></lb>
Stone Seal set therein, a Steel Watch Chain, a Seal unset, and several<lb></lb>
Books were feloniously stolen from him in Scotland, that having<lb></lb>
cause to suspect that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1390-1">David Maine</rs>
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now present had, stolen the said<lb></lb>
Effects this Informant came to London in Search of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1390-2">David<lb></lb>
Maine</rs>
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, that he found out by enquiry that a Trunk<del>Box</del>
of the said<lb></lb>
David Maine's was at the house of Mr. Russel in Craven Street<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo601">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, that when he came to the said Mr.<lb></lb>
Russel's he found the said Trunk sealed in four different places<lb></lb>
that the said seals were the Impressions of the first mentioned<lb></lb>
Seal Ring, that on opening the said Trunk in the Presence of the<lb></lb>
said Mr. Russel this Informant found therein some Books which had<lb></lb>
been stolen from this Informant in Scotland, that when the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1390-3">David Maine</rs>
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was brought from Dover to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo602">Bow Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo603">County of Middlesex</rs>
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this Informant found in the Possession of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1390-4">David Maine</rs>
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the said Steel Watch Chain & the said unset<lb></lb>
Seal which had been stolen from this Informant in Scotland which<lb></lb>
said unset Seal had since been set in Silver And this Informant<lb></lb>
further says that he does verily believe the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1390-5">David Maine</rs>
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did feloniously take and carry away the said Gold Seal ring<lb></lb>
Steel Watch Chain unset Seal and several Books from this<lb></lb>
Informant in Scotland which have been since found in the<lb></lb>
Possession of the said David Maine in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo604">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1391">Sworn November 9th.<lb></lb>
1774 before me}</p>
<p n="1392"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1392-1">Alexr Hart</rs>
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