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The Information of
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made on Oath before me one of his Majesty's
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Justices of the peace in and for the
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the 13th. day of September 1781.
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This Informant on his Oath saith that he is a
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Saint
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Lukes. That from the twenty seventh day of August
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last by the Order of his Master he has been employed
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on the Repair of a House belonging to Mr. James Cranch
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at Bishop Bonners at
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in the said County.
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That since he has been there at Work, at different
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times there hath been feloniously Stolen several pieces
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of Lead the property of the said James Cranch from the
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said House, and which had been taken off the Top
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of the House by some of the Worksmen, where it
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had been placed as a Gutter. That he verily believes
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and suspects that one
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& Bricklayer
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who was likewise employed in repairing the said Houses
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was concerned in stealing the said Lead, That he was
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informed by Mr. Cranch last Night that he had found
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some of his Lead in a Bag concealed in a Ditch in a
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field near the House and that the Person who had taken
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it had left it there, with Intent to take it way at another
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Opportunity, that he had taken the Lead of out of the Bag
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and had filled it with Bricks, and desired this Informing
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to watch and defect the Person who should come
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to take it away. That this Examinant waited near
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