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<p n="2935"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1737">Middlesex</rs>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2935-3">Richard Robert</rs>
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brought<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2935-1">William Addington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ603">Esqr</rs>
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. on of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ604">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and of his<lb></lb>
said County on Suspicion of having stolen a<lb></lb>
great Coat the Property of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2935-2">John Morgan</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date208">5th. day of<lb></lb>
December 1775</rs>
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<p n="2936">This Examinant Saith that he is one of the Patroling<lb></lb>
Watchmen in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1738">Parish of St. Andrew</rs>
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Holborn, that last Night<lb></lb>
between 12 & 1 o'Clock as he and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2936-1">John Broughton</rs>
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were going<lb></lb>
down Holborn together at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1739">Corner of Hatton Garden</rs>
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they<lb></lb>
saw a Man with a Bundle and on their asking him what<lb></lb>
he had there he dropped the Bundle and ran off but<lb></lb>
which way he took this Examinant cannot tell, that<lb></lb>
this Examinant picked up the Said Bundle which proved to<lb></lb>
be a great Coat tied up in an Apron, that he did not Shew<lb></lb>
the Coat to said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2936-2">John Broughton</rs>
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or any other person<lb></lb>
that Night</p>
<p n="2937">Taken before me<lb></lb>
Decemr. 5. 1775}</p>
<p n="2938">Addington</p>
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