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<p n="2194"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1353">Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2194-1">Joseph Berdow</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
No 1 in Seven-step Alley at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1354">Rotherhithe</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1355">Surry</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ471">Joiner</rs>
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-taken<lb></lb>
before me this 17th. day of Novemr.<lb></lb>
1781.</p>
<p n="2195">Who being on Oath says that this Morning about One<lb></lb>
o'Clock at the top of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1356">Hay market</rs>
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, he met three Women<lb></lb>
now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2195-1">Margaret Green</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2195-2">Hannah Darts</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2195-3">Ann Harris</rs>
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. That they all three<lb></lb>
accosted this Informant-that said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2195-4">Ann Harris</rs>
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unbuttoned<lb></lb>
this Informants breeches and the other two put their<lb></lb>
hands round this Informant and thrusted this Informants<lb></lb>
hands into their Bosoms That in about the Space of<lb></lb>
two Minutes after they had left this Informant, he<lb></lb>
missed a Half Guinea out of his breeches pocket,<lb></lb>
and a Gosd-Broach out of his Shirt-bosom; and is<lb></lb>
very sure that the said three Women feloniously<lb></lb>
stole the same.</p>
<p n="2196">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
17th. day of Novemr. 1781.}</p>
<p n="2197"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2197-1">Thos: Gilbert</rs>
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<p n="2198">Joseph Berdow</p>
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