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<p n="1293"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1052">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1293-1">John Witherman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1053">Hastings</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1054">County of Sussex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ427">Shopkeeper</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date244">8th. day of April 1785</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1294">Who being on Oath says that in Consequence of Information<lb></lb>
being received at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1055">Hastings</rs>
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that, Dr.. Burney's House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1056">Saint Martins<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1057">Luicester Fields</rs>
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, had been broke open and robbed of a considerable<lb></lb>
Sum of Money by his late <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ428">Servant</rs>
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, a Person now Present who<lb></lb>
calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1294-1">Thomas Hancock</rs>
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was apprehended at Hastings on<lb></lb>
the 21st. of March last and delivered into this Informants custody<lb></lb>
That this Informant Searched said Hancock and in his Breeches<lb></lb>
found an old Stocking containing 15 Guineas. and also a<lb></lb>
Purse containing 24 Guineas which said Sums of Money said<lb></lb>
Hancock said he had acquired by Servitude</p>
<p n="1295">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
8th.. day of April 1785}</p>
<p n="1296"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1296-1">Thos: Gilbert</rs>
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:</p>
<p n="1297"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1297-1">Jno Weatherman</rs>
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