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<p n="946"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo659">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n946-1">Thomas Waddington</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo660">Field Gate<lb></lb>
White Chapel</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ224">Turner</rs>
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taken before us two of His<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ225">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said<lb></lb>
County this 13th day of March 1784</p>
<p n="947">Who being on his Oath Saith That he lives at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo661">Field Gate<lb></lb>
White Chapel</rs>
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next Door to one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n947-1">Thomas Petch</rs>
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that on Wednesday<lb></lb>
night between the Hours of Nine and Ten he was Informed that<lb></lb>
Several Persons had been Knocking at the Door of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n947-2">Thomas Petch</rs>
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Who keeps a Cook Shop these<del>and Saith that Suspecting<lb></lb>
but</del>
that the<del>Same</del>
House was Shut up and the Family gone out<lb></lb>
Saith That Suspecting the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n947-3">Thomas <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Petch</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
gone off for fear of being Arrested he this Informant<lb></lb>
went out and reconnsidred the House of<del>parsh</del>
the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n947-4">Thomas Petch</rs>
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and at that Instant Discovered the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n947-5">Thomas Petch</rs>
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coming out of his House<del>Saith</del>
that he the<lb></lb>
Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n947-6">Thomas Petch</rs>
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Locked his Door and went away<lb></lb>
saith that presently after he this Informant Discovered<lb></lb>
that the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n947-7">Thomas Petch</rs>
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was on Fire<lb></lb>
Upon which he Alarmed the Neighbourhood and the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<del>of the</del>
Street Door was Broke open<del>Saith</del>
that he this<lb></lb>
Informant (with other) went into the House and found<lb></lb>
the Partition and Door of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo662">the Passage</rs>
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on Fire and<lb></lb>
it Appeared that a Quantity of Shavings had been<lb></lb>
laid along the<del>Said</del>
Side of the Said Partition in the<lb></lb>
Shop, Saith that part of the Wood on the Floor of the Said<lb></lb>
Shop is Burned and he Verily believes the said<lb></lb>
House was wilfully Set on Fire by him the Said<lb></lb>
Thos. Petch.</p>
<p n="948">Sworn before us the Day &<lb></lb>
Year frist above Written}</p>
<p n="949"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n949-1">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n949-2">Saml. Hawkins</rs>
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<p n="950"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n950-1">Thos Waddington</rs>
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