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<p n="692">The voluntary information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n692-1">Francis Leech</rs>
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otherwise Lish taken on Oath<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n692-2">George Colson Smith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ159">Esqr</rs>
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one of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ160">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo509">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date64">14th: day of April in the year of our Lord 1775</rs>
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<p n="693">Who saith that on Thursday the Sixth day of April instant or in<lb></lb>
the Morning of Friday the Seventh about two in the Morning he<lb></lb>
this informant together with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n693-1">William Kirk</rs>
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went to the<lb></lb>
Callico Grounds of Mr Hatcher at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo510">Wandsworth</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo511">County of<lb></lb>
Surrey</rs>
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Callico<del>Grounds</del>
Printer and went over some Pales and from<lb></lb>
thence into the Grand and took from thence<del>four</del>
three pieces of<lb></lb>
Muslin and one piece of Linen and afterwards hid two<lb></lb>
pieces of the said Muslin and the said piece of Linen in a field<lb></lb>
near the three Goals Head in there Road to London and one<lb></lb>
of the said pieces of Muslin they brought to Town with them<lb></lb>
Saith that soon after they had taken the said pieces of Muslin<lb></lb>
and Linen out of they Ground they met one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n693-2">Mary Lucas</rs>
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<lb></lb>
(whom they left at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo512">Putney</rs>
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in there way to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo513">wandsworth</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who<del>went</del>
came with him this informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n693-3">William<lb></lb>
Kirk</rs>
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to an Ale House near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo514">Westminster Bridge</rs>
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and drank<lb></lb>
some Purl there and from thence went to a place called<lb></lb>
the Ambury in<del>at</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo515">westminster</rs>
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and there sold the piece of<lb></lb>
Muslin they brought to Town with them to two young<lb></lb>
Men and a Woman big with Child for thirteen<del>eighteen</del>
shillings<lb></lb>
being at the Rate of one shilling per yard saith that<del>the time</del>
<lb></lb>
it was about eleven o'Clock in the Morning when they sold<lb></lb>
it Saith that in the Dusk of the evening of the same day<lb></lb>
he this informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n693-4">William Kirk</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n693-5">Mary Lucas</rs>
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<lb></lb>
went to the said Field and brought away the said three<lb></lb>
pieces of Muslin they left therein in the Morning and<del>then</del>
<lb></lb>
came to back to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo516">westminster</rs>
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next Morning and carried and</p>
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