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<p n="368"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo236">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n368-1">Thomas Emes</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n368-2">James<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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taken and made on Oath before me one<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's Justices of the peace moved for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo237">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the 5th. day of April<lb></lb>
1781</p>
<p n="369">This Informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n369-1">Thomas Emes</rs>
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saith that he is<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ62">Journeyman</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n369-2">Joshua Hopkins</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ63">Silk Dyer</rs>
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in Quaker<lb></lb>
Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo238">Spitalfields</rs>
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. That in Consequence of a Quantity of<lb></lb>
Silk having been stolen out of the said Mr. Hopkins Dyer<lb></lb>
house at sundry times and this Informant having Suspicious<lb></lb>
that one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n369-3">Charles Holloway</rs>
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who was likewise a Journeyman<lb></lb>
to Mr. Hopkins had stolen the said Silk this Informant<lb></lb>
with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n369-4">James Brown</rs>
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on the 4th. day of April instant<lb></lb>
searched the said Holloway in the said Dye house and<lb></lb>
found concealed in Holloway's Breeches seven Ounces of<lb></lb>
raw Bollogna Silk the Property of Messrs. Adams and<lb></lb>
Ridall which was entrusted with Mr. Hopkins to dye<lb></lb>
That this Informant imagining that more Silk might<lb></lb>
be concealed in Holloways House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo239">White Bear</rs>
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Alley<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo240">Shoreditch</rs>
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he went there and found locked up in a<lb></lb>
Box in his House, four Ounces of raw piedmont Silk<lb></lb>
the property of Messrs. Clay and Aguster which had<lb></lb>
been entrusted with Mr. Hopkins to dye and waste<lb></lb>
stolen out of said Dye house.</p>
<p n="370">And this Informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n370-1">James Brown</rs>
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saith that<lb></lb>
he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ64">Journeyman</rs>
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to Mr. Hopkins and that he was<lb></lb>
present with Emes at the detecting said Holloway with<lb></lb>
the first mentioned Silk concealed in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo241">his Breeches</rs>
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<p n="371">Taken and sworn the day and year<lb></lb>
aforesaid}<lb></lb>
D Wilmot</p>
<p n="372"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n372-1">Thomas Emes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n372-2">James Brown</rs>
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