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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n656-1">Thomas Wilkins</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo522">Old Cock<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo523">Bethnal Green</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n656-21">Elizabeth</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ189">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n656-89">Wm. Lawrence</rs>
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of the same place <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ190">Scavenger</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n656-2">Jane Bowsen</rs>
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of the same place <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ191">Widow</rs>
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taken this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date131">7th day of February 1785</rs>
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<p n="657">Who being on their Oaths say And first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n657-1">Thomas Wilkins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself saith That on Thursday the Twenty third day of<lb></lb>
December last in the afternoon the person now present who says<lb></lb>
his Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n657-52">Benjamin Munn</rs>
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came to the House of this<lb></lb>
Informant Situate in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo524">Old Cock Lane</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo525">Saint<lb></lb>
Matthew Bethnal Green</rs>
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in the said County where his Wife<lb></lb>
the Daughter of him this Informant was together with two<lb></lb>
Children That he gave them Lodging and Board until<lb></lb>
Wednesday the twenty Ninth day of December then next<lb></lb>
following That about one Quarter of an hour after Ten o'Clock in the forenoon<lb></lb>
of the same day he this Informant together with his said<lb></lb>
Daughter the Wife of him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n657-2">Benjamin Munn</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
her Infant ChildAged about four Months went<lb></lb>
from home to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo526">Islington</rs>
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leaving the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n657-3">Benjamin Munn</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in Charge of his House and to take Care of a Child of his said Daughter about<lb></lb>
two Years and on half Old by a former Husband<lb></lb>
deceasedThat he this Informant and his said<lb></lb>
Daughter returned home about five o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
afternoon being sent for by the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n657-4">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Lawrence</rs>
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That on going into<del>his B<obscured></obscured>
</del>
the room in his<lb></lb>
said House where he Keeps he found the drawers of a Chest in the said<lb></lb>
Room broke open and from thence<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
were taken Nine<lb></lb>
Guineas Six half Gunieas one Crown and two half<lb></lb>
Crown peices out of a Tin Snuff Box, one half Guinea<lb></lb>
and to the Value of Seventy Six Shillings in Half Crowns<lb></lb>
Shillings and Six pences out of a White Cup, One<lb></lb>
pair of Worsted Stockings and one Linen Shirt the<lb></lb>
Money and property of him this Informant<lb></lb>
Which were in the said Chest when he this<lb></lb>
Informant left his House that Morning to go<lb></lb>
to Johnston as aforesaid that a pair of Old worsted<lb></lb>
Stocking and an Old Linen saint belonging to the prisoner were<lb></lb>
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in the Room in the said of those taken away<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n657-5">Elizabeth Lawrence</rs>
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for herself</p>
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