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<p n="1000"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo976">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1000-1">Henry Cottle</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken upon Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1000-2">William<lb></lb>
Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ397">Esqr</rs>
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. one of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ398">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said<lb></lb>
County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date165">5th. day of April 1786</rs>
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<p n="1001">This Informant upon his Oath saith that<lb></lb>
on Saturday the first day of April instant at about<lb></lb>
the hour of Ten or Eleven of the Clock in the Evening<lb></lb>
He was picked up by the prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1001-1">Mary Bass</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
a public House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo977">Chick Lane</rs>
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who took him to her<lb></lb>
Lodging in an Alley or Court near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo978">Chick Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
where this Informant wen to bed and put his<lb></lb>
Money in one of his Stockings which he put<lb></lb>
between the Bed and Sacking That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1001-2">Mary<lb></lb>
Bass</rs>
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came to Bed likewise and soon after the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1001-3">Mary Bass</rs>
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took the Stocking and Money<lb></lb>
from under the bed and ran down Stairs with<lb></lb>
it that presently after a Man came up to this Infort<lb></lb>
with the Stocking duly and forced him out of the Room And<lb></lb>
this Informant further saith that the said Stocking<lb></lb>
Contained Two half Crown pieces and Six Shillings<lb></lb>
in Silver and Twelve Penny worth of Copper Half pence<lb></lb>
this Informant property and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1001-4">Mary Bass</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did Feloniously steal take & Carry away the same.</p>
<p n="1002">Taken & Sworn before me the Day<lb></lb>
and Year first above Written}</p>
<p n="1003">W Blackborow</p>
<p n="1004"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1004-1">Henry Cottle</rs>
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