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<p n="772"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo471">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n772-1">Samuel Welch</rs>
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of the Queens<lb></lb>
Head in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo472">Strand</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ147">Victualler</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 3rd. day of May 1781.</p>
<p n="773">Who being on Oath says that last night about 12 o'Clock he<lb></lb>
went into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo473">Turks Head Coffee house in the Strand</rs>
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to enquire<lb></lb>
after a Mr. Darlow; that not finding him there he fell<lb></lb>
asleep being disguised with Liquor. That about One o'Clock<lb></lb>
he was awaked by a Person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n773-1">Nathaniel Ford</rs>
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who said that this Informant had better<lb></lb>
have a Coach. That a Coach was accordingly called and<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n773-2">Nathaniel Ford</rs>
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by force pulled this Informant<lb></lb>
to the door. That when they were without the door the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n773-3">Nathaniel Ford</rs>
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had hold of this Informant's left hand<lb></lb>
when he felt him stoke his hand down this Informant's<lb></lb>
Arm to the end of his fingers, and thereby drew a Gold<lb></lb>
Ring off this Informants little finger and feloniously<lb></lb>
stole the same. And further says that he was at this<lb></lb>
Time perfectly sober, and is very sure that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n773-4">Nathaniel Ford</rs>
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stole his said King.</p>
<p n="774">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
3rd. day of May 1781.}</p>
<p n="775">W Addington</p>
<p n="776"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n776-1">Saml Welch</rs>
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