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to wit
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The Information of
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Henry Cowling
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Samuel Griffin
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Patrick Mc Manns
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John Clark
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taken before me this 21st. day of Febry 1783.
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Who being on Oath say and first the said
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Nancy Pawsey
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for herself
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says that a Trunk, a pair of Shippers, a Silk Gown and Petticoat
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and Handkerchiefs now produced, are her property; and does verily
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believe that a remnant of Irich Cloth and a Towel now produced
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are likewise her property. That on or about the 17th of December
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last she sent the said Trunk containing the said Articles (with
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many others) from Silver in Bedfordshire by Edwards's Waggon
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to the Windmill Inn in Saint
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John Street
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directed to this Informant
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at No 5 in
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Great Newport Street
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; and which said Trunk and
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Contents she believes were Stolen. And the said
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Henry Cowling
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Says that he is a Porter at the Windmill Inn that he received the
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Trunk directed to Mrs. Pawsey in New port Street into his care
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the Day on which it was brought by the Waggon, and which
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Trunk (with other Goods) he put into a Cart in order to carry
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it to
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. That whilst he was delivering a Hamper
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in
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the Strand
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near the
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New Church
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, the said Trunk was Stolen
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out of the Cart. And the said
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Samuel Griffin
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says that he
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stood by the Cart whilst the Hampor was delivering, during which
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time a Man came up to this Informant and asked him which
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was the Way to
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"to which Question this Informants
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replied that he could not tell" and further says he is very
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sure that a person now present who calls himself Hart.
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Levy is the same Prison who asked him the Way to
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Queen Street
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as aforesaid. And the said
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Patrick Mc Manus
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says that the Trunk now produced he found in a Five pair
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of Stairs Room in a House in a Court in Middle Row Holborn,
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occupied (as he is informed) by
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Hart Levy
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now present, and in
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which Room several Articles of Wearing Apparell (since claimed
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by said Levy as his property) he found at the same time.
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