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<p n="1870"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1210">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1870-1">Thomas Bates</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1870-2">William Barret</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 10th. day of October 1781</p>
<p n="1871">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-1">Thomas Bates</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says on Wednesday last a person was present who calls herself Elizabeth<lb></lb>
North came into this Informants Shop, and said she wanted something<lb></lb>
for a Waistcoat That in about five Minutes, after two other<lb></lb>
persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-2">Ann Davis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-3">Mary Cook</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came in, and asked for brown Linen and some Flannel-That<lb></lb>
after some time he sold the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-4">Elizabeth North</rs>
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half a Yard of<lb></lb>
printed Jane and a Yard of Dimothy, and to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-6">Ann Davis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-7">Mary<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Cook</rs>
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two Yards of Flannel and half a Yard of<lb></lb>
Brown Cotton-Says that he is very sure that when they came<lb></lb>
into his Shop he had upwards of twenty Yards of striped <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1211">Manchester</rs>
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<lb></lb>
silk and Cotton, which was lying on the Counter and immediately on their<lb></lb>
going away he missed the same; from which he is very sure<lb></lb>
that one of the said persons stole the same-And the said William<lb></lb>
Barrch, says that he is Servant to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-9">Thomas Bates</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
was in the Shop when the said Women came in, That the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-10">Elizabeth North</rs>
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requested him to shew her some Stuff for a Boys<lb></lb>
Waistcoat on which he shewed her about twenty Yards of striped<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1212">Manchester</rs>
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and several other pieces of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1213">Manchester</rs>
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-That he observed<lb></lb>
the other two Women buying something of his said Master and go away<lb></lb>
and afterwards<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1871-11">Elizabeth North</rs>
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go away & that in about<lb></lb>
five Minutes after they were gone he missed the said twenty Yards of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1214">Manchester</rs>
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and doth verily belive<del>and</del>
that one of them stole the<lb></lb>
same</p>
<p n="1872">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
10th. day of Octr. 1781}</p>
<p n="1873"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1873-1">Sampn. Wright</rs>
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<p n="1874"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1874-1">Tho Bates</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1874-2">William Barratt</rs>
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