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<p n="1160"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo796">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1160-1">Morgan<lb></lb>
Thomas</rs>
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taken before me One<lb></lb>
of His Majesty's Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace for the said County</p>
<p n="1161">Who being upon Oath saith that on Saturday<lb></lb>
Night last between one and two oClock<lb></lb>
he was going along <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo797">the Strand</rs>
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when<lb></lb>
the person now present who calls<lb></lb>
herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1161-1">Elizabeth Berry</rs>
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came up to him<lb></lb>
and after asking him to go with her which<lb></lb>
he refused and then asked this Informant<lb></lb>
to give her a Shilling, this Informant<lb></lb>
(told her he had no Silver, upon which<lb></lb>
She put her Hand upon his <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ293">Breeches<lb></lb>
Pocket</rs>
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and Immediately Ran away<lb></lb>
when this Informed from her Running<lb></lb>
away<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Suspected she had Robb'd him<lb></lb>
and Immediately Run after her and Cried<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Stop thief and soon after he over took her<lb></lb>
and found in her Hand a Silk Purse<lb></lb>
Containing therein Seven Guineas and seven<lb></lb>
half Guineas now produced & which said purse and money was<lb></lb>
feloniously taken out of his pocket as above<obscured></obscured>
bed</p>
<p n="1162">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
this 3d day of June 1782}</p>
<p n="1163"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1163-1">John Croft</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1164">Morgn. Thomas.</p>
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