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<p n="2256"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1531">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2256-1">William Sweeton</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1532">Kensington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ533">Labourer</rs>
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taken before me this 19th. day of July 1784.</p>
<p n="2257">Who being upon Oath says that<lb></lb>
this Morning about 5 o'Clock this Informant put seven Guineas and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
2s/6d in silver into<lb></lb>
a Drawer in his House at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1533">Kensington Gravel Pits</rs>
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, at which tie<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2257-1">James Griffin</rs>
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now present <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ534">wid</rs>
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in the Roo, and in about a Quarte<obscured></obscured>
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of an hour afterwards (when said Griffin was gone this Informant<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
four Guineas. That this Informant pursued said Griffin to<lb></lb>
Shepperds Bush where he took him into custody, and where<lb></lb>
sais Giffin confessed to this Informant that "He had stolen<lb></lb>
said four Guineas", one of which he gave this Informant and<lb></lb>
said that "He had hid the other three in a Dunghill".</p>
<p n="2258">Sworn befor me this<lb></lb>
14th of July 1784}</p>
<p n="2259"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2259-1">William Smeeton</rs>
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<p n="2260"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2260-1">Sampr Wright</rs>
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