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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1315-1">Jane Cross</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ547">Wife</rs>
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Cross</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1393">No 6.</rs>
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a Lodger in said House<lb></lb>
and <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ549">Lawyer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1315-26">John Spices</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1396">No 30</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1398">Grosvenor Square</rs>
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hath Render, taken before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date224">6th day of October 1786</rs>
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<p n="1316">Who being upon Oath Say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1316-1">Jane Cross</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Saith,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that last Night about Eight o'Clock, her Linen was<lb></lb>
hanging to dry in the Yard belonging to the House where she lives;<lb></lb>
that being in her Wash House adjoining said Yard, one Camell as<lb></lb>
Lodger brought her a Street, and inform'd her that some of the Linen<lb></lb>
was laying in the Yard; that having pin'd the Linen when she put<lb></lb>
it on the Lines, she was sure that some Person or Persons, must have<lb></lb>
taken it Off, and running into the Yard Saw the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1316-2">James Carey</rs>
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with two<lb></lb>
other Men, rush out of the Necessary and Jump over the Wall into<lb></lb>
the next Yard; that seeing the Linen now produced viz two Shirts<lb></lb>
two Shifts and our Waistcoat, laying in the Necessary House, she legs<lb></lb>
them, and Ran into the on<obscured></obscured>
Yard, where she found the Prisoner in<lb></lb>
the Privy <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1316-3">John Simpson</rs>
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for himself saith that hearing the<lb></lb>
alarm, he went down into the Yard, when he saw the Prisoner<lb></lb>
getting over the Wall; that after giving the Linen which was in<lb></lb>
the Necessary to Either Ramson, he got our the Wall in pursuit<lb></lb>
of the Prisoner, who was found in the Privy <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1316-4">John Spicer</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself saith that hearing an alarm, and being informed<lb></lb>
that the Prisoner was in the Necessary House at Mr. Turbolls,<lb></lb>
he went thither and pulled him out by the Collar</p>
<p n="1317">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
6th. day of Octor. 1786}</p>
<p n="1318">N Bond</p>
<p n="1319"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1319-1">Jane Cross</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1319-2">John Simpson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1319-3">John Spices</rs>
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