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<p n="1539"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1039">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1539-1">Margaret Wiley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ366">Servant</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
Mr. Clark of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1040">Southampton Street Covent Garden</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1539-2">John Waddie</rs>
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one of the Watchmen of the parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Paul <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1041">Covent Garden</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1539-3">William Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
one of the Watchmen of the said Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Paul <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1042">Covent Garden</rs>
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taken before me this 1st.<lb></lb>
day of May 1784</p>
<p n="1540">Who being upon Oath says and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1540-1">Margaret<lb></lb>
Wiley</rs>
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says, that last Night about half past 10 oClock as she<lb></lb>
was crossing <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1043">Southampton</rs>
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Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1044">Covent Garden</rs>
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several persons<lb></lb>
rushed against her, one of whom Matched from under her<lb></lb>
Arm a Quantity of Gauze and Ribbon now produced, the<lb></lb>
property of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1540-2">Charlotte Jones</rs>
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now present; and further says she<lb></lb>
doth verily believe that a person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1540-3">Thomas Watts</rs>
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, is one of the persons concerned in rewhing against<lb></lb>
and robbing her as aforesaidAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1540-4">John Waddie</rs>
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says,<lb></lb>
that he last Night heard the Cry of "Stop Thief" and soon afterwards<lb></lb>
saw said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1540-5">Thomas Watts</rs>
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drop the said Gauze and Ribbon in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1045">Southampton</rs>
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Street aforesaid as he was running along <lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1540-6">William Smith</rs>
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says that he heard the Cry of "Stop<lb></lb>
Thief" and seeing said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1540-7">Thomas Watts</rs>
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running away he pursued<lb></lb>
him into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1046">York Street Covent Garden</rs>
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where he apprehended him</p>
<p n="1541">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
1st. day of May 1784}</p>
<p n="1542"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1047">Addington</rs>
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<p n="1543">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1543-1">Margaret<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Wiley<lb></lb>
Mark</rs>
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<p n="1544">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1544-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Waddie</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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