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<p n="1511"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1511-1">James Qurk</rs>
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Taken the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date287">19th. day of May 1785</rs>
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<p n="1512">Who upon his Oath Saith That about Five<lb></lb>
Weeks ago one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1512-1">John Pearson</rs>
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who frequently<lb></lb>
came to his House as acquaintance and feild<lb></lb>
feloniously Stole therein one of His Cloak of the<lb></lb>
Value of 20s. his property That he did not see him<lb></lb>
afterwards untill Monday Night last when he<lb></lb>
went in Pursuit of him and found him at a<lb></lb>
public House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1281">Saint George Bloomsbury</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Took him into Custody That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1512-2">John Pearson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
endeavoured to Make this Escape but when he found<lb></lb>
he could not he acknowledged he Stole the Cloak<lb></lb>
and begged he would for give him and he would give<lb></lb>
this Informant a Note to pay him the Value of the<lb></lb>
Cloak on the 1st. day of June Next But this Informant<lb></lb>
Refused Secured him and took him to the Watch house</p>
<p n="1513">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
day and Year aforesaid}</p>
<p n="1514">D. Walker</p>
<p n="1515">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1515-1">James Qurk</rs>
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