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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2548-1">Elizabeth Griffiths</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2548-2">John Lee</rs>
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taken on Oath the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
eighteenth<lb></lb>
day of June 1784 before me one of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ602">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1733">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="2549">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2549-1">Elizabeth Griffith</rs>
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Saith That she is a<lb></lb>
Servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2549-2">James Stratten</rs>
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Esquire of the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Matthew <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1734">Bethnal Green</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1735">County of Middlesex</rs>
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And<lb></lb>
further Saith That on Wednesday the Sixteenth day of<lb></lb>
June Instant about Ten o'Clock at night she was in the<lb></lb>
Laundry adjoying to the Dwelling house of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2549-3">James<lb></lb>
Stratton</rs>
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and fastened up the same and left in the said<lb></lb>
Laundry a large Quantity of Linnen some wet and some<lb></lb>
dry And further Saith that about a Quarter of an hour<lb></lb>
Past six O'Clock the next morning she was called up by<lb></lb>
one of her Fellow Servants named <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2549-4">Thomas Mallidge</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
acquainted this Informant that the Laundry window was<lb></lb>
open and that the Laundry was robbed, Informed then<lb></lb>
found the Laundry had been robbed of a large quantity<lb></lb>
of linnen and other things the property of her Master and<lb></lb>
the Iron Bar of the Window Taken out And furter Saith<lb></lb>
that One Linnen Sheet marked I3A and one Darnash<lb></lb>
Table Cloth marked I3A and a large quantity of Linnen<lb></lb>
now produced by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2549-5">Solomon Lovell</rs>
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a Constable of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1736">Parish of Hackney</rs>
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is the property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2549-6">James<lb></lb>
Stratton</rs>
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her Master and is part of the property that<lb></lb>
was stolen out of her Masters Laundry as abovementioned</p>
<p n="2550"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2550-1">Elizabeth Griffiths</rs>
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<p n="2551">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2551-1">John Lee</rs>
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on his Oath Saith that he is<lb></lb>
a Labourer and lives in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1737">Parish of Hackney</rs>
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And that<lb></lb>
on Thursday Morning last about Eleven O'Clock in the<lb></lb>
forenoon he was in a Cart with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2551-2">John Moore</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
Grove street Hackney <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2551-3">Peter Sampson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2551-4">Joseph Collings</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2551-5">Charles Allen</rs>
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coming up the lane from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1738">Hackneywick</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at the distance of about Two Hundred yards from<lb></lb>
each other each of them having a Bundle in their<lb></lb>
Custody This Informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2551-6">John Moore</rs>
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suspected<lb></lb>
they were thieves, accordingly<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Moore pursued and called<lb></lb>
out Stop Thief and by that means they pursued</p>
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