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<p n="704"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo757">Middlesex</rs>
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The several Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n704-1">John Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n704-2">George Meacham</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n704-3">Eleanor Barnes</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n704-4">George Weguelin</rs>
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Taken the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date127">14th. day of<lb></lb>
May 1787</rs>
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<p n="705">Who upon their Oaths severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n705-1">John Thomas</rs>
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for himself Saith That on Thursday<lb></lb>
last between the hours of Eleven and Twelve oClock in<lb></lb>
the day he went with a woman now in Custody who<lb></lb>
says her Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n705-2">Diana Beckford</rs>
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to a public House<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo758">Parker Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo759">Saint Giles's</rs>
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called <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo760">the Cheshire Cheese</rs>
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<lb></lb>
That they drank together a great Quantity of Ale and<lb></lb>
afterwards he went with her to a Apartment at the<lb></lb>
next door That he there had Connection with her<lb></lb>
and afterwards the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n705-3">Diana Beckford</rs>
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came up to<lb></lb>
him as he was Sitting in a Chair and took out of his<lb></lb>
Right hand Coat Pocket Nine Cotton Handkerchiefs<lb></lb>
and went away and as she was going he Called to her<lb></lb>
and told her not to go away with his property She said<lb></lb>
She should be back again in a Minute That he<lb></lb>
waited there sometime but she did not come back<lb></lb>
but in about Two hours afterwards the woman was<lb></lb>
taken into Custody That the Handkerchiefs now<lb></lb>
produced are his property and the same that were<lb></lb>
Stolen aforesaid</p>
<p n="706">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n706-1">George Meacham</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
That he took the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n706-2">Diana Beckford</rs>
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into Custody<lb></lb>
when she That the prosecutor had sworn falsely for it<lb></lb>
was not her that Took the Handkerchiefs it was another<lb></lb>
woman and said That they were Sold at a Shop in</p>
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